brains, telphones and microprocessors
George McKinlay (mckinlay who-is-at unr.edu)
Fri, 01 Oct 1999 23:34:03 -0700
I remember reading an interesting analogy between the human brain and a telephone system, needless to say
it was a rather dated piece of work (the analogy I mean) but it did so much smack of the "brain as
computer" model that I thought it would be rather fun to do a little comparison... now my problem (among
others) is that my brain doesn't store information like a computer does; so I have this rather vague
recollection about that work...
Anybody out there know the source of my telephonic analogy
Of course any other trivial trivia about treating the brain like a hunk of silicon would also be
appreciated
Cheers