Interfaith Encounters

AI: The Brain as a Computer

Episode Summary

What's going on in your head today? Thoughts? Feelings? Dreams? A ceaseless flow of hormones driving and inhibiting electrical impulses? Do you have a mind or a computer in your skull? In this episode we explore how we came to think of our brains as computers, and thus how a computer could become a brain!

Episode Notes

This episode explores more deeply what it means to think of our brains as computers, and how computers can be thought of as brains. But is it really that simple?  A video version is found at http://www.youtube.com/@InterfaithEncounters or http://interfaith-encounters.org.