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Copyright (c) I. Volkov, January 5, 2017 – May 10, 2019

Modern computers already surpassed complexity of the brain. What is more important, in the process of development, theoretical cybernetics elaborated numerous concepts and solutions which may be applied to living systems. The process is mutually beneficial. You explain how biological organisms operate and simultaneously get some hints about further development of machines.

The human brain is a live automatic control system. Hence it may be described in terms of modern cybernetics. It is very different from common computers, but the main concepts are applicable. A typical workable computer consists of the two main parts: hardware and software that is material and non-material halves. Accordingly, for humans we talk about the body and the soul. The term hardware is not very well suited because a half of the human body is water. Also objective phenomena behind the soul are much wider than just algorithms learned by a person. Nevertheless, the terms will be retained for compatibility.

Programmers of traditional computers know that software is heavily dependent on hardware. With the development of computer industry, large efforts were applied so as to achieve portability, but the talks is about a program which should run on 2 computers of the same type, but made by different manufacturers. It is obvious that if a different hardware has no some feature which is crucial for the program, then they are incompatible in principle. So we should begin from functional architecture of the brain, only then proceed to software which may run on this device.