There Is Nothing Magic About a Transistor

You probably know that a computer performs calculations based on
strings of instructions composed of 'on' or 'off' switches, but did
you know that a computer can be constructed out of nearly anything,
including coconut shells or microorganisms? The latter, in fact, would
be extremely useful in production because they would not have to be
handled as meticulously as transistor chips need to be. (Can you
imagine what it would be like to have to feed and water your
computer?) Coconut shells as transistors on the other hand would be
cumbersome to say the least. It would probably take a football stadium
of racks of shells ten stories high and many cubic tons of circulating
water just to make a simple calculator program. But it could be done.I
don't wish to argue for or against artificial intelligence, it is
sufficient for me that computer programs seem to extend my own
intelligence, but I know that it is one of entrapping charms of
computer programs as well. The undeniable point, however, is that
basis of all artificial intelligence is based upon binary code. Brain
cells, on the other hand, are infinitely more complex in their DNA
code in comparison to transistors. And they are functional and
specialized, and are localized into different parts of the brain,
which has a hypothalamus, but that is not analogous to a CPU.At the
very core of any computer language no matter how complex its build,
are directions for transistors at the heart of the computer to turn on
or off. One might point to the complexity of programming language as
evidence of intelligent response, but the truth is that all code comes
from human brains and is not contained in the transistors- or coconut
shells- themselves. A computer is a machine and its working parts are
analogous to valves. We shouldn't confuse the super-intelligent
illusion of computer programs as independent of the living human
intelligence that made them.