The brain of the computer is CPU or Hard Drive?

[rip]

1 hour ago, DemonicHeart said:

the closes thing to a human brain.. which one is it. a cpu or hdd..

 

i stick to what i say which is hdd

but why only hdd?

you know pc can use different method of storages like SSD, SSHD, ODD...

[rip]

45 minutes ago, StepinCurry said:

It powers those things and without power good luck.

That's the heart, it pumps blood to your body

[DemonicHeart]

1 minute ago, rip said:

but why only hdd?

you know pc can use different method of storages like SSD, SSHD, ODD...

which ever drive.. it doesnt matter which type but where ever memories are stored 

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7 minutes ago, DemonicHeart said:

i'll have to test this theory out on a 1gb stick to see if what you're saying is true..

 

but its very hard to believe

 

[DnFx91]

what a strange conversation, by this logic, would the UEFI firmware be the soul ?

[rip]

You can't assign 1 specific thing to a multi purpose, fuctional brain

A drive does one thing: to store information

While a brain does more than one thing:

[DemonicHeart]

10 minutes ago, rip said:

 

i see the point you tried to make.. as it says he is running from ram but he still have HDD plugged in

[DnFx91]

don't know why im putting so much effort into this, it's so devoid of any meaning but fuck it

 

PSU is the heart

Drives are the childhood memories/pin number that you can access at will

RAM is the subconscious, keeping you going without any interactive input

CPU is the brain, makes the most sense

NB/Chipset is your nervous system, tying all your "components" together on a "data" "bus"

GPU is your vocal cords, your only way of expressing your inner workings to the outside world

UEFI is the soul

 

this is some deep shit it would seem

[rip]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

don't know why im putting so much effort into this, it's so devoid of any meaning but fuck it

 

PSU is the heart

Drives are the childhood memories/pin number that you can access at will

RAM is the subconscious, keeping you going without any interactive input

CPU is the brain, makes the most sense

NB/Chipset is your nervous system, tying all your "components" together on a "data" "bus"

GPU is your vocal cords, your only way of expressing your inner workings to the outside world

UEFI is the soul

 

this is some deep shit it would seem

motherboard is the skeleton keeping everything structured

and cables are joint keeping things connected

i guess

[JoeCoke]

1 hour ago, Alesek said:

different parts of pc would be different parts of brain imho. but to answer your question, it is CPU. you dont need a drive to run the pc

This, a PC is a brain lol.

[dalekphalm]

2 hours ago, DemonicHeart said:

what exactly is the brain of computer? is it the cpu or hard drive? 

one will argue that is processor since it "processes"  everything in the pc.

 

but to me the real brains of the pc is the hard drive, where "memory" is stored.

The hard drive also do its own processing since it has its own chip, also the hard drive is where all the information "intelligence" is stored.. 

 

Whats you're thoughts on this subject?

 

 

i'll say this whenever you change hard drive in your pc its like anew. its not the same.. its like a new born you have to grow again.

 

for example: getting all your information again, teaching it to do certain things. and whenever the hard drive crashes its like being brain damaged and need a fix.. 

If you're trying to make a human analogy, then the entire Motherboard and storage devices are the brain.

 

The CPU is like the Cortex, where the more intelligent processes happen. RAM is your short term memory and HDD/SSD is your long term memory. And the motherboard itself is your nervous system/spinal cord.

[JDK319]

The CPU does the thinking, the hard drive does the memory. Whichever sounds more brain-like to you i guess

[Sniperfox47]

1 hour ago, DemonicHeart said:

 try to install windows without a  hard disk and see how far you will get lol

 

but i see your point

Might not be able to install Windows, but I can install a UEFI firmware with a shell, writing further UEFI code inside that.

 

Firmware however is stored inside the motherboard CMOS, so even that's not a great example.

 

The most accurate answer is that no part of a PC can be compared to a brain in it's whole, and that different parts of a PC offer different parts of the brain's functionality.

 

Short term memory is analogous to RAM,

Long term Memory is analogous to Non-volatile storage (Hard Drive, NAND, XPoint, CMOS, Etc.),

CPU is analogous to the Interneuron connections and processing of the brain,

And the Motherboard and firmware are the primal part of the brain; the combination of instinct and connections to your spinal column.

[TheSuspect]

2 hours ago, Maybach123 said:

imo the entire computer is the brain. with the case being the skull 

likely the most accurate answer.

[App4that]

The CPU and Memory both work off gates. In the begining we had gates made up of 10 or more transistors that had specific functions, AND gates for addition and OR gates for multiplication (many more I know, keeping it simple) Then someone figured out that Boolian algerbra was a pain in the cock and now you have the ability to change the function of a set of transistors. 

 

Why is that important? Your CPU and memory only understand binary, so 1+1=10. Why is that important? Nothing using gates knows what a decimal point is, your computer is not a brain. It's a brain emulator. 

 

I work with languages right at the machine level, gates are stupid. They have no ability to do anything but what you tell them. Closest thing to a brain is software, that's what processes information, the PC is just the body. 

[Princess Luna]

Conscious would be processed by the CPU and stored on RAM while HDD/SSD are the memory?

[AntonChigurh]

CPU is probably frontal lobe, HDD is probably hippocampus IMO.

[MrImnotMLG]

I wrote a paper on this for my final last semester:

 

Self-Portrait(2).docx (If you want to read it, just know I removed the header so it's formatted weirdly)

[Beef Boss]

No single part could be classified as the brain even if you want it to, I don't care. Our brains don't have one part that does everything. The case is our skull that protects our brain or whole system. Hearts like a PSU. Motherboard is what keeps it together and connect. Hard drives store information. So really not one part is the brain but everything together forms a brain

[ClippTube]

Hard drive is storage.

[manikyath]

the computer in its entirety is the "brain", parts of it do the remembering, parts of it do logic, parts of it process images, etc.

[Technomancer__]

The CPU is a part of the brain

Only short memories and processing, ram is another for longer memories and HD another for long term

[Arika]

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[F7GOS]

Its probably better to think of the PC as a whole as the brain of a system rather than the PC itself having a brain. 

[Columbo]

The brain is the motherboard.