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The brain is like a scientist.

Submitted by Leigh (guest) on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 1:33pm.

The brain is like...a mother board.

Ok so maybe not a mother board since our brain as far as my understanding doesn't need input to generate an output. Out brain actually creates output in order to expect an input. It's a scientist making predictions about what it may observe depending on what output is used. This makes much more sense than the simple stimuli = response. This story doesn't account for the random output we receive in dreams and when our brain has absolutely so stimuli. So really our brain is like a scientist.

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