How many of you believe the brain is basically a high-functioning computer?

Question

Have you seen this video? What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4y8mTRqXAo

Answer 1

I don't feel there's any reasonable basis for comparing the two.  The two consist of very different parts that work entirely differently.  We know how the computer works on a gross level quite well, but we really don't understand how the brain works on a gross level, despite our rather keen grasp on how a neuron works.

Moreover, even though a bird and an airplane can both fly, it'd be silly to suggest that the underlying mechansisms could or should be similar.  Thus human cognition cannot and shouldn't be compared to the functioning of a computer.

The application of quantum phenomena to attempting to understand the brain are a bit of a leap, in my opinion at this stage of the game.

Answer 2

I don't.

Answer 3

No.  

The computer is a low-functioning, primitive analog of a brain.

Answer 4

Psh, computers are way smarter than more than half the population.

Answer 5

While the brain can be *measured* in compatible terminology as a computer, they don't operate at all alike. But say a universal turing machine could accurately track our cognition, memory, etc.

Answer 6

okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay....i realy dont know what to say