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"One of the things that stood out to me in watching the video was how much my mind seems to work like a computer."

A more accurate way of thinking about this is: how much the computer works like our mind. Not surprising considering that people build things based on how we understand everything else. Whether it was done consciously or subconsciously.

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I read somewhere once that we tend to think of our mind in terms of whatever the current most complex technology is. At one point we thought of the brain as a fantastically complicated plumbing system, and later as a telephone switchboard. I wonder if in another decade or so will the idea that our brains work like computers seem as wrong as the idea that they work like plumbing systems.

I think that decade is now. Brains work nothing like computers. Well, as much as they do like plumbing systems ;)

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