11-May-2005, 08:21 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany, Old Europe
Posts: 4,148
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Re: Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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Originally Posted by Asian-American
Second, neuro-biology has shown that our brain at the micro-level is just a computer program, where the ones and zeros in the binary code are analagous to the patterns of synapses in the brain. The speed of nerve conduction in the brain is analagous to the processor speed, front-side bus speed, PCI bus speed, and so forth in the computer, and the amount of neurons in the brain is analagous to the computer RAM, cache, and hard-drive size. Thus, humans have no more free will than does a super-computer.
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First I can't remember that these points have been shown somewhere and second, even if all these alalogies exists, the conclusion mustn't hold. Just because a walking robot, has same speed, leg lengths and other things doesn't means that we are just robots.
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