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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat is a fantastic exploration of this idea, focusing on people who have lost specific parts of their brains due to tumors or strokes. The human mind is very much like a complex modern website- take Amazon for example, if everything is working, it’s the website where you buy stuff, but if certain specific systems are offline, you lose specific features, like your order history, or your cart, or your recommended products, etc… Missing one or two of of those components diminishes the site somewhat, but it’s still more or less Amazon. Your brain works the same way!

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago

Stupid brain running micro-services.

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

At least it’s on-prem, I’d hate to see the AWS bill for running a conscious human brain 24-7

this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2024
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