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You're a Human Being, Not a Computer!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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There's a reason you wake up every morning instead of booting up. And why you probably processed bites of cereal this morning, not bytes of data.

A few years ago, Rebecca Lawson at the University of Liverpool asked men and women from different backgrounds to draw a bicycle from memory. Simple, right?

Well, not only could the average person not draw a functionally accurate bicycle, but some of the contraptions they did draw were hilariously impractical. Most of these "bicycles" were missing fundamental parts, and many participants couldn't even remember where the chain or pedals went.

So, why can so few people recall what something as basic as a bicycle looks like?

Writing in Aeon, psychologist Robert Epstein from the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology has the answer: "We are organisms, not computers. Get over it."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/your-brain-isnt-a-computer-opinion-164705/#zCXfDiiZ87vxbb3j.99

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