... other item in their memory. This means that serial processing computers are very accurate, but rely on brute computing power to over-come the inefficiencies inherent in the serial processing method. These weaknesses indicate that serial processing computers are fundamentally different to the most complex computer on the planet, the human brain. We know that the brain is vastly slower than a modern serial computer, in terms of the rate that it can perform calculations, yet when faced with a stimulus, for example our Grand- Mother, we can almost instantly recall a vast amount of stored information about that individual. The human brain is also notoriously inaccurate, with us all experiencing memory lapses on a daily basis. The human brain does not process information in a serial fashion. The brain is made up of a huge net of cells called neurones. These neurones are influenced by a continuous input from those neurones that ...

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