Computers and the Human Brain

Human intelligence, for the most part, does not operate like a von Neumann type of logic machine. It does not, for the most part, engage in precise reasoning, manipulating abstract symbols. The great fallacy — perhaps based in a kind of technological arrogance — is that the human brain works like a logic machine, and that, therefore, the computers created by the collective genius of men like Atanasoff, Babbage, Bush, Turing, von Neumann, and Zuse — upon perfection — would act like human brains.