Rafe Kaplan Journal #1

The comparison between a human’s brain and a computer is only created by over thinking and giving meaning, or connection to items that should not have either. The idea that we have compared our brains to the latest and greatest invention of each time period is due to our utter and complete disbelief in how incredible our brains are. If the comparison to a computer is a certain number of steps after the comparison to a telegraph means we never really believed our incredible, enlightened, gift-from-god brain was even in the same universe as a machine it created that could only send symbolic messages, so why is a computer even incredible enough to be considered? We would have to rethink our greatest and most important species in existence if what controlled and guided us was only on par with the capabilities of a telegraph, so as soon as something better was invented we saved our egos a little by instead comparing our brains to the next thing and the next. I cannot be sure about the other seven some odd billion people on the planet and however many there are elsewhere, but I do not understand what my brain is, what its capabilities are, or even if mine is different than some else’s. My best guess is that I am not alone as there are plenty of movies and television shows based on debunked rumors about what our brains do and what they are able to do. Furthermore, I do not believe the limit to our brains’ abilities have been seen yet even with the genius ten year olds graduating college, so who is to say that even something eighteen steps past a computer will even be able to hold a candle to a brain. Computer experts could say that they have the same parts, or function similarly, or even an AI that acts like any other human is similar; however, brains are what created the ideas for everything that exists unnaturally in our world, any dream anyone has ever had, any crazy, abstract and terrifying thought that has ever been had and no computer, piece of machinery, or human-created invention can ever be made to have the same unlimited, world changing and foolish potential that a brain does.