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 Posted: 02/28/06 - 18:25 Post subject: if you had to explain to a child....
how a computer works - what would you tell them? 
i was thinking about this, and i mean, really it's getting a little bit beyond a simple explanation...
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 18:35 Post subject:
It's like your brain. You can think of a million things at once and store a bunch of different memories, songs, and pictures. Computers are just like that, except computers don't have feelings or personalites supposedly.
And now these "artificial" brains can talk to one another due to the internet.
That's very simplistic. Depends on the year of the child, of course.
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 18:53 Post subject:
that whole brain scenario is kind've creepy (i'm soooo against AI development)..
i'll ask the next question:
but how?
really now, brains talking to each other?
and how is it that we can input information into the brain?
...it occurs to me a computer is sort've like a waitress: it asks you what you want, it may or may not get it for you, it has lots of choices, may be in a bad mood, may act sporadically, if she does a bad job you might want to talk to the manager (who probably isn't available and doesn't care)... she communicates with other people to get what you need (the chefs are not unlike servers), and if you do filthy things with your waitress you could get arrested. sometimes they are the greatest thing in the world - sometimes you want to throw them out the window.
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 18:59 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | that whole brain scenario is kind've creepy (i'm soooo against AI development)..
i'll ask the next question:
but how?
really now, brains talking to each other?
and how is it that we can input information into the brain?
...it occurs to me a computer is sort've like a waitress: it asks you what you want, it may or may not get it for you, it has lots of choices, may be in a bad mood, may act sporadically, if she does a bad job you might want to talk to the manager (who probably isn't available and doesn't care)... she communicates with other people to get what you need (the chefs are not unlike servers), and if you do filthy things with your waitress you could get arrested. sometimes they are the greatest thing in the world - sometimes you want to throw them out the window. |
Brains talk to each other using our mouths, just as the wire plugs into the wall.
You input info visually and audibly, whereas on a computer it is done manually.
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:01 Post subject:
....i'm 22 years old and i think you just lost me. 
what about the wireless ones? or the internet?
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:43 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | ....i'm 22 years old and i think you just lost me.
what about the wireless ones? or the internet? |
Wait until the kid actually asks those.
Or if he's old enough go to ask jeeves for kids
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:47 Post subject: Re: if you had to explain to a child....
| blue wrote: | how a computer works - what would you tell them?
i was thinking about this, and i mean, really it's getting a little bit beyond a simple explanation... |
Ask your Dad! 
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:51 Post subject: Re: if you had to explain to a child....
| JACKED UP wrote: | | blue wrote: | how a computer works - what would you tell them?
i was thinking about this, and i mean, really it's getting a little bit beyond a simple explanation... |
Ask your Dad! |
Or better yet: "Hey kid, wouldn't you rather know where babies come from??"
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