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"Our brains know what to look for. Think for a moment of how a computer works. At the moment, I'm typing this on a word processor; using a software package called, appropriately, "Word," which contains masses of information in code about page layout, fonts, editing and so on. At the same time, my computer processor, referred to as its "hardware," which scans the program, decoding the electrical impulses, and effectively "reading" the information they contain. This is similar to how the human brain works. If programs are the software with which we work, then they require the corresponding hardware to enable them to run. Humans have this hardware; animals don’t."
In this context, is the verb "look for" in the 1st sentence similar in meaning to "scan" or "decode"??😊😂
If not, what does the verb "look for" mean?? 😉😭
"Our brains know what to look for. Think for a moment of how a computer works. At the moment, I'm typing this on a word processor; using a software package called, appropriately, "Word," which contains masses of information in code about page layout, fonts, editing and so on. At the same time, my computer processor, referred to as its "hardware," which scans the program, decoding the electrical impulses, and effectively "reading" the information they contain. This is similar to how the human brain works. If programs are the software with which we work, then they require the corresponding hardware to enable them to run. Humans have this hardware; animals don’t."
In this context, is the verb "look for" in the 1st sentence similar in meaning to "scan" or "decode"??😊😂
If not, what does the verb "look for" mean?? 😉😭
In this context, is the verb "look for" in the 1st sentence similar in meaning to "scan" or "decode"??😊😂
If not, what does the verb "look for" mean?? 😉😭
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「look for」と「scan」や「decode」という動詞は似ていますが、微妙な違いがあります。"Our brains know what to look for."という文での「look for」は、直接的には「探す」という意味です。つまり、脳が何を探すべきかを知っているという意味になります。一方、「scan」は「走査する」という意味で、情報をざっと見るというニュアンスがあります。そして、「decode」は「解読する」という意味で、情報を理解するために暗号や符号を解読することを指します。つまり、「look for」は何かを見つけること、「scan」はざっと見ること、「decode」は情報を理解することを意味します。
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And, is the relationship between "programs" and "computer processor" similar to the one between "apps" and "smartphones"??😊😉😂
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it means "try to find". If you are looking for a pen, that means you are trying to find a pen.
It doesn't seem to fit the context all that well, though. If I had the whole context I could explain it better.
Yes, the relationship between "programs" and a "computer processor" is the same as the one between "apps" and "smartphones". Smartphones are just small computers, and apps are programs.
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I don't think I have the full context on what the human brain is looking for lol, but from this still I'd say it's definitely similar to scan, and a little similar to decoding.
"know what to look for" means you already know what's important or not, so when you have a bunch of information to go through (which our brains do), you can just find the important stuff instead of considering everything. You could do this by "scanning" through the info (going through it systematically), which is what computers do.
on its own, "look for" isn't the same as decoding, but here it might be. in context the whole meaning here is that our brains know can go through huge amounts of info and figure out what everything is. we'd call that our brains' ability to decode information. the words are different, but in context the overall meanings are similar
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