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saturn comments on Evolutionary psychology: evolving three eyed monsters - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Dmytry 16 March 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: saturn 18 March 2012 03:27:47AM 1 point [-]

I don't think knowledge of computer programming can be applied to brains through analogies involving "adding computational power" or "improving algorithms". A computer's processor, memory, algorithms and data are strictly conceptually separate and each can be modified without causing any change to the others. That's not at all the case with a brain.