What Are We (humans)???

This is the first post I am making in reply to my own post Have Questions? So Do I…

The question is “What are we (humans)?”

In my opinion humans are nothing more then extremely sophisticated computer systems.

I have several reasons for me to believe this as a possibility.  First of which, is based on my understanding of how the brain works.  My next reason is based on what I know know about computer systems. Lastly, I base this as an idea that makes logical sense.  This is not on explanation of why we are here, how we came to be, or any other question of that type.  Simply, what we are.

In my understanding of the human body, the brain receives, interprets, and sends electronic signals through the nervous system to basically control everything about us.  These signals tell our lungs when to breathe, our feet to move when walking, and when our hearts should race.  The brain receives trillions of signals every day, and uses the information it received to dictate everything else.  For example: You are out in the sun in the middle of summer and after a few minutes you start to sweat.  The mind has received signals that your skin was too hot, or your blood temperature began to rise and thus initiated a method of cooling to try and restore the proper temperature.  It reacted much like the household thermostats do: picked up a variance and then took action to correct it.  Only with the human body, there are too many sensors sending signals to count, and different methods of cooling that the mind must choose from as to best fix the problem.

The basic computer has several components: the processor (brain), motherboard (nervous system/nerves), inputs, and outputs.  When someone gets onto a computer, they use an input device (like a mouse) to start up a program (like a web browser).  When that person double clicks that program, the signal is sent through the input to the motherboard, through the motherboard to the processor, and the result is then routed back through the motherboard to an output (like a monitor).  In short, the computer received a signal, interpreted that signal, then sent a return signal.  Sounds familiar doesn’t it?  Everyone knows the kinds of things that computer can do when they are pushed to their full potential.

My logic behind this is kind of cloudy even to me but I will try to put it into writing.

There are so many similarities between humans and computers that if you had a powerful enough computer, I think that they would have the same kind of stats (if they could be evenly measured).  Something that floats in my mind is that people have designed computers; and sub-consciously, we designed them to be like us because that is all we know. Is it all that surprising that the human body and a computer system are so similar? Or does that just make sense? The only thing that I am confused about is the full potential of the sub-conscious mind.  Will there ever be a way to test and find out the capabilities of it? Or would it be something that we would not want to know?

Basically, we are nothing more then highly advanced computers with unmeasurable power.  A household computer processor works with “0 & 1 (on & off)” and the human brain works with “Yes, No, & Maybe.”

This is my opinion only and if you have any questions, or “tid-bits” that you would like to put into this topic, leave a comment.