Do you think comparing CPU operations to human brain neuron firing makes for a good comparison?
A. Absolutely. They are both very basic elements of complex machines: modern microprocessors and human brains respectively. When a neuron fires, it basically transfers an amount of information, comparable to 5 bits, to another neuron. The receiving neuron views this as input, does some computation, and gives output. And so on. When a CPU loads in an instruction as input (which is basically just a number), it performs some computations, and then gives output. Just like a neuron. A CPU is, ofcourse, just one CPU. But it is easy to see how a network of CPU’s could pass on information to each other just like a network of neurons would.
