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Are all brain functions computable?
1University of Kelaniya.
The Ceylon Medical Journal
|April 11, 2001
Abstract
Background:
Whether the human brain is nothing but an advanced computer is a matter of inconclusive debate. This paper contributes to that debate.
Method:
Critical reasoning based on evidence provided by the history of a woman who complained of amnesia after each of two separate acts of attempted suicide.
Findings:
A life-threatening tendency (suicidal impulses) may be countered by a functional imperfection (selective amnesia) or a feigned malfunction (malingering).
Interpretation:
Some aspects of brain function may depend on operations that no hitherto invented computer can duplicate.