maureen greenbaum's List: PersonalLearning

The human brain integrates memory and processing together, weighs less than 3 lbs, occupies about a two-liter volume, and uses less power than a light bulb.  It operates as a massively parallel distributed processor.  It is event driven, that is, it reacts to things in its environment, uses little power when active and even less while resting.  It is a reconfigurable, fault-tolerant learning system.  It is excellent at pattern recognition and teasing out relationships.

structure of this machine is entirely different from today’s commercial computers.  The memory and processing elements are built close together.  It has no clock.  Operations are asynchronous and event driven; that is, they have no predetermined order or schedule.  And instead of being programmed, they learn.  Just like us.