There are quite a few differences between a computer mind
and a biological mind; many of which can easily be interpreted. Well for one, our brains are a living,
breathing, and soft component of our body. A computer’s brain is a piece of
hardware and program that is built specifically to store data; it does not
breathe or necessarily “live”. When the
human body repeatedly interacts with an object or task, memory is created of
the said interaction and is stored in the part of the brain associated with
memory. This memory can be recalled at any moment again for the user to once
again complete the task. What makes this retrieval unique is that most of the
time it is done subconsciously, without having to tell ourselves to go fetch
that information and wait for the brain to do so. That is not how a computer
functions. A user has to program a “memory” into the computer and then command
the computer to bring up that memory. I can remember working with a robotic arm
in middle school and the tedious work of programming every single step into the
robot and remembering to save every little action. When the biological brain
saves the information, it is practically painless where as my fingers and
wrists began to ache after programming the robot for nearly 30 minutes
straight. And whereas when the human goes to reach for a glass, per say, the
actions are smooth, flawless, almost elegant in transition from the extension
of the arm to the folding of the fingers around the glass whereas for a robotic
arm to perform the exact same actions in the same flawless manner, nearly a
hundred commands or more must be inputted precisely. However, there is
technology being worked on that can give computers “artificial intelligence”,
where they will be able to “learn” as biological organisms can.
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