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Saturday, April 02, 2005

The side effect of being born human

"No other mammal has babies nearly as helpless as ours. Even blind puppies walk to their first nursing. And the reflexive curling of Katy’s toes reminds me that, if she were a monkey, she’d already he able to hold onto a branch."


That is exactly the point.

Why computer's programs of today are far away from human brain.

They are built as a finished product.
It can do a lot, millions of functions, but it stops there.
The computer in human brain has a very reduced number of functions, but has what no computer's program has: the function of learning.
And not just with a logic function like a syllogysm, if A is B and B is C then A is C.

The human brain can see when A can be C and when it cannot.
For the computer program those functions are very reduced and very definitive.
A computer will never understand that A could be C in the case of a rational behaviour, but it would never be C in an irrational behaviour.

The human brain is rational enough to understand also the irrational.

And the fact we cannot walk or do anything else when we are born is done on purpose.
We ARE OBLIGED to learn, that is, WE ARE OBLIGED to use our brain in order to survive, and WE ARE OBLIGED to develop it.

That is the side effect of being born human.
(even though lately I am beginning to doubt about the humanity of many...)

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