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Brains: Are They Really Like Anything?
Posted by Chris Chatham on April 10, 2008
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Peter Hankins has written an excellent commentary criticizing the “positive comparisons” I make after contrasting brains with computers. Peter says: “… the concept of processing speed has no useful application in the brain rather than that it isn’t fixed.” While this statement may intuitively appeal to some philosophers, temporal limitations in neural processing are both…