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Lauressa Tramp
Professor Mayor
Exploring Psychology
31 January 2016 Neuroscience; A Computer in Your Head
Did you know that each neuron connects with, on average, 40,000 synapses? Or that n inety minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging?
Everyday scientist are doing tests and finding new data about the human brain. There are thousands of interesting details that scientist have discovered, however, there is so much that is yet to be found. Because the brain can be so confusing, a person might compare it to something such as a clock. What most scientists find more productive for a person’s understanding of the brain is comparing it to a computer. One might think how a PC or a Mac can be compared to the brain. In the course of this paper, one will learn about the comparison between a computer and the human brain, as well as discovering the differences and new facts.
Whenever a person’s laptop dies from low battery what do you do? Of course your first instinct is to grab the charger and plug it in. But how is our brain related in this way, you don’t just plug it into a charger do you? Surprisingly that’s basically what you do. Instead of plugging yourself into a wall, the type of charger a person uses is food. The food turns into a form of glucose creating energy for the brain and body.The amount of energy that a person gives their body all depends on their diet. This diet needs to have the proper amount of vitamins, such as C and D, to deliver the energy that is needed to function. Unfortunately though, the brain does not have an off button that you can push. Some may think sleeping is that off button, but come to find out, the brain is always activated. This is why people have dreams while sleeping.

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A big similarity in both a computer and the brain is they use electricity to function. With a computer, each wire is connected together creating electricity to go through and control devices.
The electrical signals that are sent through the body or brain are the neurons, the electrical realm of a neuron impulses creating what is called an action potential. Information, whether it’s from thousands of neurons going through a synapse or just one, is then transferred to other neurons and controls things such as muscles, organs, and glands.
Don’t you just love going back on your computer and reminiscing past experiences with friends and family. Whether you put these memories on your computer by disk or by using a chip, it’s nice that your computer can save memories. Like a computer, a brain can store memory as well. Brains use neuronal circuits throughout the brain in order to store memory. The brain goes through constant change and can learn new things. Something I never really thought of that I found intriguing is that both a computer and the brain have the capability to monitor and connect with their surroundings. A computer can control the temperature of a room and the lighting when information is received about it. The same goes with the mind. If a person is in a rancid environment, than your first instinct that your mind is telling you is to leave the unpleasurable sented area and go somewhere that is more gratifying.
Although a computer and the brain have a lot of similarities, there are a couple of differences as well. One of the most blatant differences, however, is that a computer has no apprehension about what is around them. It all comes down to a computer is not sentimental, doesn’t have an imagination, and doesn’t feel like a human does. There are many books such as
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker that goes more in depth into this topic. All in all, we do all this research for a white­pink tissue that weighs approximately three pounds. The brain is such a fascinating organ that scientist will most likely spend thousands of more years doing

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tests and experiments on. I, as much as any other person I could imagine, can not wait to see what else scientist learn about the brain.