Originally Posted by
Luk
Saying that we're made up of the same thing is not a convincing comparison. We're all made of hadrons and leptons, but that doesn't mean you will try to convince me to apply the stars as a metaphor for the human mind, right?
Therefore, what matters in these kinds of metaphors is how an object behaves, not what it's made of.
CPUs are sequential. Even GPUs are sequential, despite the parallelism. They read instructions in order.
The brain doesn't do that. It's inherently parallel and its sequential phenomena are generally higher level functions. The opposite of modern computers.