An Essay that I wrote that you might find interesting...

I'm going to school for IT and I just thought about this today driving back home from school. I found this thought interesting.

I decided to write an essay...as like something interesting that I thought about and I can refer to... kind of a recorded thought...

Once I wrote a rough draft I thought I should share it with people....


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Humanity is so technology driven that they tend to think that humans cannot ‘think’ like a modern computer does. This is not true. The human brain is, in many ways, like a computer system. Moreover, the human brain is far more sophisticated than a computer system, as any individual has the ability to pave their thought process for any reason at any time. The human brain is more flexible than a computer system and unlike a computer; a human brain greatly builds its knowledge on past experience and trial and error. When it comes down to it, the only area in which a computer system is ‘better’ then a human brain is performing arithmetic operation very quickly and following instructions blindly, which all stems from truth and falsity, in the most basic sense. Both the whole idea behind truth and falsity AND calculators in general were invented by human logic at some point. Computers are driven by human knowledge and logic. Computers are not superior to human knowledge. Everything that the computer does, any data that is outputted to your screen, everything that happens on the hardware and software level of a computer is a product of the human mind. It follows, that computer errors are a product of the human mind as well. We all know that no human brain functions ‘perfect’ on any given day. In addition, the result of any given error is probably beyond what, an even knowledgeable, human brain could comprehend. Is it possible to troubleshoot every possible combination of computer instruction sets to find out why the a particular error occurred? Probably not.
However, since any computer systems implementation comes down to Boolean logic (truth and falsity), it follows that any given error is a result of a combination of circuits or human logic that was poorly calculated by the architects that brought it up. Once the error is known to be product of a particular instruction sequence, then fixing it is not too difficult. I believe that as technology progresses and computers advance to higher levels. Better methods of testing computers for possible errors will exist and testing methods will not have to involve trial and error. But rather a quick ‘possible error instruction-sequence’ trouble shooter that will basically exhaust all possibilities of errors being created and trouble shoot them or indicate the erroneous area so it could be fixed, and exclude all possibilities of instruction sequences where errors cannot be created.

 

Everything we experience is a thought. Steven Pincker gives an excellent treatment of this subject in his book, "How the mind works"

 

Have a skillet of franks and potatoes on me and forget about writing


Hotwater

 

This immediately made me think of free will of man. U may think of the human mind as the universes computer and we are all preprogramed by our passed experiences. Anyone that has been for eg given a treat in life sorta speak for a acting in a particular way will be programed to act or function in the same manner in the future u may argue that all our decisions in life are preprogramed in the same way. Yet we all can remember some one acting out of there character sorta speak and that one act of free will may create a sequence of data that is based on an error there for all of it is just one big individual mind, could free will be nothing more but an error in our internal software?

As far as computer go i think that the logic behind the software is solidly tested to function properly granted its not perfect actually on the other hand maybe its made to function to perfectly.

I think computers are inferior to human mind simply because computers are made on a false bases of perfect information yet the world is anything but perfect predictable source of information. The software may be flawless but the hardware will all ways have the ghost in the machine single electron out of place may through the sequence out of order that will build up in to a substantial error. The inflexibility of the software is its down fall sure in the future u could let the error be a catalyst of evolution and build on it but the purpose of the software would be lost.

 

Thanks for the reply, I really enjoyed reading it. Interesting point.