The great irony puzzling cognitive scientists is why human consciousness is so unable to think in parallel, despite the fact that the brain runs as a parallel machine. We have an almost uncanny blind spot in our intellect. We cannot innately grasp concepts in probability, horizontal causality, and simultaneous logic. We simply don’t think like that. Instead our minds retreat to the serial narrative—the linear story. That’s why the first computers were programmed in von Neumann’s serial design: because that’s how humans think. And this, again, is why parallel computers must be evolved rather
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