"Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence"

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Robots using computers as brains would process sights and sounds in a manner quite different than animals. Digital versions of the signals are immediately coded into a random-access memory system ("memory") so that no replicas of the rose or the sound waves are to be found the heads of the "brainbots". A central program that deals with all sensory information accomplishes storage and retrieval.