The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Joe Haldeman
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The brain is more like a car, with a lot of parts that don't work together as well as they should, but it does a good enough job of getting us from A to B. We're not very good at thinking about the details involved in our actions and we're pretty bad at predicting what we'll do next. That's why we need the rest of the body and all its organs and systems to be working together as well as they do.

Source: None So Blind: A Short Story Collection

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