Last of six programmes with Professor Colin Blakemore 6: The Enchanted Loom
The human brain with its 100,000 million nerve cells has a complexity and performance which, in nearly all respects, far exceeds the capacity of any computer. Such machines which have, it is true, good memories and the ability to perform prodigious feats of calculation, are actually simple-minded when it comes to interpreting visual images we can recognise at a glance. The brain is the most intricate, complex product of evolution: the Enchanted Loom as it has rightly been called.
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