{"id":194481,"date":"2024-08-13T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/discrete-and-continuous-processes-in-computers-and-brains"},"modified":"2024-08-13T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T16:27:19","slug":"discrete-and-continuous-processes-in-computers-and-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/discrete-and-continuous-processes-in-computers-and-brains","title":{"rendered":"Discrete and Continuous Processes in Computers and Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discrete-and-continuous-processes-in-computers-and-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theories of computation and theories of the brain have close historical interrelations, the best-known examples being Turing\u2019s introspective use of the brain\u2019s operation as a model for his idealized computing machine (Turing 1936), McCulloch\u2019s and Pitts\u2019 use of ideal switching elements to model the brain (McCulloch and Pitts 1943), and von Neumann\u2019s comparison of the logic and physics of both brains and computers (von Neumann 1958).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories of computation and theories of the brain have close historical interrelations, the best-known examples being Turing\u2019s introspective use of the brain\u2019s operation as a model for his idealized computing machine (Turing 1936), McCulloch\u2019s and Pitts\u2019 use of ideal switching elements to model the brain (McCulloch and Pitts 1943), and von Neumann\u2019s comparison of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}