Metaphorically speaking, what would you consider to be the microprocessor

your mom

>>8647075
Ha jokes on you. I no longer want sex from her since it finally happened. Ive been freed of all nasty temptations.

>>8647067
Brain is the microprocessor. Your consciousness is the software. However it's more like self-modifying hardware, so it doesn't really have a SW+HW part instead it simply does physical, HW, changes which are analogous to SW. It looks like it's more effective this way.

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>>8647099
>tfw equipped with high-performance hardware while people around me are low end toasters

>>8647117
Why doesn't he look lonely and full of existential dread?

>>8647124
cuz HE

>>8647099
brains are more like FPGAs than CPUs

>>8647706
Yeah, good point, with a self-modifying configuration.

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>>8647137
HAS NO

>>8647099

No, your computer modifies itself as well. The analogy is pretty strong.

Instead of storing data in RAM or on a Hard Drive, your brain stores it in connections and membranes.

The software is whatever your computer is running through the CPU at a given time. The software for your brain is whatever electro-chemical signals it is passing through neurons at any given time.

>>8647067

I would consider neurons to be microprocessors. The brain is like a distributed system of computers.

>>8647796
what is your background? have you ever studied computer architecture?

>>8647067
Honestly, the cortex is the microprocessor, and the brain stem is the motherboard.

Getting some damage to the cortex will make you loopy and forget the names of tools or your mother for example, but if you damage your brain stem you're unconscious forever.

>>8647067
benis. definitely the benis.

>>8647067
consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, it's futile to compare it to a microprocessor.

>>8648477

I have multiple degrees my friend.