[dpark]

> You're acting like the brain is some kind of binary computer

It's not binary but it is a computer. The alternative is to believe in magic.

> we don't even really understand how a computer is able to make certain decisions or generate certain pictures yet, correct?

I don't think that's correct, no. We understand how the process works. We may not understand the weights a specific neural net ends up with, but that's an issue with just having so much data to deal with. Similarly we don't "understand" how a web page ends up with a specific PageRank. We understand the process, but we can't manually reproduce the result because it's just too much data.