{"id":418,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:38:43","slug":"brains-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Brains = Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Do our Brains operate like a Computer?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Digital computers operate by turning electrical signals into binary &#8220;on and off&#8221; states and flexibly manipulating these states by using switches. You can find the same operating principles in the brain: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The neurons in the prefrontal cortex are binary\u00a0&#8211; they have two states, either active or inactive\u00a0&#8211; and the <a href=\"?p=571\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">basal ganglia<\/span><\/a> is essentially a big switch that allows you to dynamically turn on and off different parts of the prefrontal cortex. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain as a whole operates more like a social network than a digital computer, with neurons communicating to allow learning and the creation of memory. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The computer-like features of the prefrontal cortex broaden the social networks, helping the brain become more flexible in processing novel and symbolic information. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/brain-mouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=419\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do our Brains operate like a Computer? Digital computers operate by turning electrical signals into binary &#8220;on and off&#8221; states and flexibly manipulating these states by using switches. You can find the same operating principles in the brain: The neurons in the prefrontal cortex are binary\u00a0&#8211; they have two states, either active or inactive\u00a0&#8211; and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}