/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6236620
>When you have a new idea, are you not solving a problem you're not programmed for?
The human brain is a computer. Hell, it even uses electricity to transmit information. Its programming is its ability to strengthen or weaken the links between neurons. When you find a good "neuron configuration", you have your solution to your problem.

Yeah, the brain does have a programming. The programming is this ability to change itself. The ability to solve a problem is merely a piece of memory, or experience that your neurons learned over the years. This is the reason kids are given toys like "insert the square shape into the square hole". They are designed to create the problem solving "circuits" in the kid's brain.

But the brain can do some other pretty amazing things just like rewiring neurons. Some crazy scientists cut off the eyes of a lab rat, and wired its optical nerve to the animal's auditory cortex. After a while its brain learned how to process the information, and became able to recognize shapes again. This is the programming of the brain, and we can emulate it.