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Re:"A computer is just a calculator..." | 709 comments | Create New Account
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you're claiming brains are not calculators?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 10:57 PM EDT
Got any evidence for that?

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"A computer is just a calculator..."
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 01:34 AM EDT
You really don't get it. At the end of the day a computer is
just an adding and subtracting machine. At its most primitive
level this is all a CPU does.

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"A brain is just a stimulus-response associative processor..."
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 04:42 AM EDT
One reason I bring this up is that there will be rather large living neural nets connected to computers, and these will be used as workers. I see adding such aids to living neural nets as the equivalent of normal prosthetics added to a person (or animal for that matter) to repair/enable a more normal life.
The way most modern large neural networks are connected to most computers these days is through earplugs, or so a walk down town on an average day teaches me.

A stimulus-response associative processor - which is the best Big Large Acronym I could find - such as the brain, is a fact of nature much like the sun, the moon, the seas, rain, predators, prey, bowel functions, etc.

Which means, if computers could be developed to emulate neural networks very precisely, or even be neural networks themselves, they would be facts of nature as copied by humans, and thus themselves ineligible for patents, however much the individual aspects of such a grand design might themselves be patentable human-designed manufacturing processes and inventions. Wesley Parish

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Re:"A computer is just a calculator..."
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 10:38 AM EDT
All CURRENT computers are just a glorified calculator though.
Yep. and so will all FUTURE computers be!

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Wow
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 12:30 PM EDT
You are trying to claim that purely mental processes, carried out in a human
brain, are patentabke???

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A neural network is just a computer
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 12:28 PM EDT
Turing complete, nothing more, nothing less.

And people know quite well how a biological neurons work, a network of
biological neurons behaves like a neural net of the type we create by code.

A huge network, with very complex neurons. But just as humans taking too long to
perform a calculation isn't reason to claim that it's not math, one needing a
too large neural net isn't either.

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"A computer is just a calculator..."
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 04:44 AM EDT
A computer is a mechanical and electronic expression of some complex equations in Boolean Algebra.

It is driven by numbers ( instructions) and it operates on numbers (data).

What's patentable about all that? What is patentable about any of the parts of the whole? It's all maths, not just the software.

Anon Y; Mous.

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