[Joe Bloggs]

The analogy fails when we consider that the brain is organic and subject to change constantly, whereas a mother-board is fixed and static.
The mechanism is baffling. We cannot reproduce it because we really don't understand it. Hence the difference between computers and brains remains huge.

I remember reading somewhere (think it was an Ian Malcolm monologue) that the human brain is a software system that constantly rewrites and re-organised itself, creating new neuron pathways every time we hear a sound, smell, touch, see or taste anything.
The brain is in a state of chaos and constant flux, as it processes the data input from the senses.

[Gary Wassner]

Exactly, and it's alive. It changes constantly, every second, whether it's sleeping or awake. We could never measure the full effects of the environment upon it, and then beyond that and even more baffling, the effects of the birth and death of its own cellular matter. It's never the same from one second to the next.

[Joe Bloggs]

the effects of the birth and death of its own cellular matter. It's never the same from one second to the next.

True. Although from what I've heard, the brain had finite cells which are never replaced. every knock, bump or even beer is said to kill millions of brains cells daily.
A bit worrying! :eek:

[Gary Wassner]

Yes, particularly if you're a soccer (football) player.

[Joe Bloggs]

Yes, particularly if you're a soccer (football) player.

Let's be hones, the majority don't have that many to begin with.