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jedberg on May 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)

The metaphors are just how we explain it to people so they can understand.

We've known for a long time that brains don't work like computers. They they are analog systems with weights and thresholds.

But that is hard to describe to a layperson.

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