“The neural code is often likened to the machine code that underpins the operating system of a digital computer. Like transistors, neurons serve as switches, or logic gates, absorbing and emitting electrochemical pulses, called action potentials, which resemble the basic units of information in digital computers. But the brain’s complexity dwarfs that of any existing computer. A typical brain contains 100 billion cells—almost as numerous as the stars in the Milky Way galaxy. And each cell is linked via synapses to as many as 100,000 others. The synapses between cells are awash in hormones and neurotransmitters that modulate the transmission of signals, and the synapses constantly form and dissolve, weaken and strengthen in response to new experiences….Assuming that each synapse processes one action potential per second and that these transactions represent the brain’s computational output, then the brain performs at least one quadrillion operations per second, almost a thousand time more than the best supercomputers.”
-- Horgan, J. 2004. “The Myth of Mind Control.” Discover, vol. 25, no. 10.
Since the most advanced computers ever designed by man are only one one-thousandth as complex and capable as the human brain, is it not logical to conclude that the brain is also the product of an external, designing force having an express goal in mind?
As the Chinese proverb so aptly puts it “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.”
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