Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ... Ver mais

Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ... Ver mais

Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ... Ver mais

The passage in which the verb phrase indicates a necessity is:

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

In line 21, the word “fancy” could be replaced with whim without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

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Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

In line 34, the word “allegiance” could be replaced with loyalty without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

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Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

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Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 

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