What you call “above that” all has to eventually be translated into binary math, for computers to work.
Which is what makes people like Dennis Ritchie so impressive.
But the reason for that is the mechanism of computers. Everything is done by manipulating whether transistors allow electricity through or not, each mode acting as a “1” or a “0” when computer designers and software developers work the binary math code.
A byte, for example, is 8 digits of binary, 8 "1"s or "0"s, each representing one transistor in “allow electricity through” or “do not allow electricity through” mode.
Of course it all reduces down to the fundamental level.
How is that any different for the human brain?
Everything reduces down to some minuscule component.
Get with phoneutria on this one. She’s a computer geek.
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Could it possibly be… no it couldn’t… say it isn’t so… could it be, could it be to do with memes and genes? 
A mother board is purely all meme, our brain is meme and gene/the learned and the innate.
It must be all about conflicting goods, spirits, and freewill.
Maybe this belongs on the Religion and Spiritual forum?
I stay away from that sort of stuff, especially after James’ extensive analysis of it all. I accept the “bubble of belief” paradigm (or ontology or whatever you philosophers call it). What people need is not always the truth of what is. Wisdom is not always truth.
Let’s not get lost in gobbledygook. Straight facts will do.
Computers are designed and coded for for and with binary because of how transistors work. They are set in “allow electricity through” or “do not allow electricity through” mode which allows computer designers and software engineers to represent them and manipulate them through the "1’s and "0"s of binary mathematics.
In what way does that separate computers from brains?
Please don’t invoke the dasabracadabra master. We don’t need gobbledygook. Let’s stick to facts.
I am hoping she’ll jump in because she is an expert of both fields.
She’s an expert on the human brain? 
I’ve got to see this.
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…a great thread Pedro …very thought-formulating indeed…
though I really thought it was going to be about a quiz, on Pop. 
Supoena the witness.
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Lol @obsrvr524, I ain’t gettin involved… watching on, from da sidelines.
"- preparing my cross examination brief —
Supoena the witness."
Your honor let the record show that if the defense does not agree with the prosecution, they are therefore conspiring communists.
Bailiff, please take this crazy person out of the courtroom.
“She’s an expert on the human brain?”
No he meant she’s an expert at computers and being a geek.
If you want to know the brain you talk to me. The gate control theory. We’ll start there. Whadaya know about it.
No, I meant she’s an expert on brains. She studied microbiology.
But if you’re one, why don’t you take a crack at question 2?
Amoeba brains are not like human brains, dude. Except in trump’s case.
Cuz I’m fixin to eat some ribs haus.
Cause you don’t know prom, tell the people the truth. Cause you don’t know!