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How to Learn Anything So It Sticks & Peculiarities of the Human Brain

Something You Should Know

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The Brain Is Not a Computer but a Computer Is a Computer

The brain is nowhere near as compartmentalized and organized as a computer in that there's no memory bank or files but I'm personally okay with it. If you start saying the brain is lacking a computer then you're going to run into problems because the brain doesn't really operate along those lines at all. There's lots of sci-fi about people uploading their minds onto computers and so on and so on but that's way beyond anything we're capable of right now. electronic technology and neurology just don't work in the same way fundamentally incompatible and there's a lot of work we need to get them to talk to each other in a useful way.

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