© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Computer & Brain – a comparison
•Computers have a much faster clock speed.
•Brains are much, much more parallel. à more unit updates per sec than computer
•Brains are more adaptive à grow into tasks
•Brains exhibit graceful degradation: gradual rather than sharp drop off in performance and conditions worsen