What the brain does is closer to activating a bunch of different ideas in parallel. Some of those activations rise to the level of awareness, some don't. Each activation triggers others by common association. And we try to make the best of that thought soup by a combination of reward neurochemicals and emotions.
A human brain is nothing at all like a computer in terms of logic. It's much more like an LLM. That makes sense because LLMs came largely from trying to build artificial versions of biological neural networks. One big difference is that LLMs always think linguistically, whereas language is only a relatively small part of what brains do.
What the brain does is closer to activating a bunch of different ideas in parallel. Some of those activations rise to the level of awareness, some don't. Each activation triggers others by common association. And we try to make the best of that thought soup by a combination of reward neurochemicals and emotions.
A human brain is nothing at all like a computer in terms of logic. It's much more like an LLM. That makes sense because LLMs came largely from trying to build artificial versions of biological neural networks. One big difference is that LLMs always think linguistically, whereas language is only a relatively small part of what brains do.