Saturday, May 9, 2015

Essay on www = Brain

How is "www", or the World Wide Web, related to the brain?  The human brain is a very complex subject that can lead to so many different ideas when you try to analyze it, and the way it works. The first words that come up to mind when thinking of the brain are probably "thought" or "mind". So, the most obvious relation we can come up with is that the brain came up with, or thought of, the www, commonly known as the Internet.

The Internet and the Brain also function in a somewhat similar way. The brain is a network of cells, and it sends electrical signals through the nerve cells to give various commands to the body parts, both voluntarily and involuntary. The Internet is a network of electronic devices: PC's, routers, mobiles, and so on. The Internet exchanges data between these devices by sending and receiving electrical signals through cables and wireless technologies.

The brain is what allows people to remember things that they have seen, listened to, or otherwise felt in the past. This is called memory. Short-term memory is a small area of storage where people store important information that they use regularly. This includes words, objects that we often see in our lives, and commonly heard sounds. Long-term memory is deeper inside the brain, and it sometimes requires a lot of time to dig deep enough to a specific memory. Computers work in a very similar way. They store frequently (and currently) used data in fast access storages, like RAM and CPU Cache. Other data is stored in non-volatile storage mediums like HDD's and SSD's.

The Internet is the largest network in the world. The Internet connects computer devices by allowing them to send and receive information. In a way, the human brain is very similar to computer networks. It connects different people and aid their communication by allowing them to do actions like speaking and listening.

Another interesting point of relation is the fact that the brain and Internet are both contradictory and unpredictable. You can find all kind of conflicting and contradicting information in the Internet, just like you sometimes think of completely opposite things. The Internet and the Brain both never stop functioning. There's always somebody using the Internet, just like your brain is always doing something as long as you are still alive. They are also both independently governed. The Internet is not owned or controlled by anyone and is completely independent. The brain as well is solely governed by itself and functions independently. Finally, they are both practically infinite. The Internet has countless pages, users, and services, as does the brain have countless thoughts and feelings.

To conclude, the Internet and brain are much more similar than some people think. The two have been compared since the advent of the Internet, and different comparisons have lead to different results, but the one thing that everyone agrees upon is their complexity and infinite potential.

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