What gives human and animals the ability to think?

Question

As opposed to computers which can also learn (by typing commands), but cannot think.

Answer 1

Their Brain

Answer 2

You need to distinguish between consciousness and reflective thought - animals share the first, but not the second with us.

Some theorize that reflective thought is the result of numerous feedback loops, and in the attempt to produce a conscious (thinking) computer, they have attempted to replicate that process. Until recently, while there have been computers capable of deductive reasoning, it cannot be said that a computer can "create," ie come up with a new idea.

But now that speed and capacity have increased, the notion of AI - Artificial Intelligence - seems imminently achievable.

So if the notion of feedback loop proves correct, animals will still be only conscious - but humans and computers will be able to "think"

Answer 3

God. Did you know that evolution was invented by men who were created? You how that got you arguing about the wrong topic? Maybe you don't like the idea God, because that means that there are some rules to fallow. But, if I were you, I would be embaressed trying to defend the idea that we all come from a rock millions and millions of years ago. Evolution is unscientific, it is unitellectual, and it is a sure why to find yourself in hell one day. The devil is laughing at you for believing that silly theory. Go look at the answer I gave to the question before this. You will see some truth. There is much more, however, to be known about real science, which proves a literal six day creation.

Answer 4

We are not quite there yet. We have reduced this from a mystery to a problem, though. You can read, " How the Mind Works ", for Steven Pinker's viewpoint, or you can find something by Eldelman on his neuronal group selection theories and the connectionists have something still to say on this. So, the jury is still out and whether it is strong or weak AI, connectionism, or cascading neuronal group selection, is still debatable. I almost forgot modularity of mind. Get to work, as you have a lot of investigation ahead of you.

Answer 5

The ability to think, comes from the brain. It has a circuit that makes it possible to think, possibly by sending recursive waves through the structure and jumping the gland.

Answer 6

eating greens

Answer 7

i think he wants to know more how we are able to think and have memories and such

Answer 8

the brain.