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- adjective   Resembling a 
brain or some aspect of one. 
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a brain can keep track of changing engrams, a brainlike computer should be able to keep track of them too.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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This is beginning to look rather brainlike, in that we have specialized organs communicating densely, and circularly, within and among themselves.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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This is beginning to look rather brainlike, in that we have specialized organs communicating densely, and circularly, within and among themselves.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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If a brain can keep track of changing engrams, a brainlike computer should be able to keep track of them too.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Having brainlike computers would greatly simplify the process of extracting information from one brain and sending it to another.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Having brainlike computers would greatly simplify the process of extracting information from one brain and sending it to another.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Hypothesized in 1971 as the fourth basic circuit element (in addition to the resistor, inductor, and capacitor), memristors could make brainlike computing possible.
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But reproducing brainlike behavior in actual computers has turned out to be much harder than many people anticipated.
Designs, Intelligent and Stupid Sean 2007
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At the top of the spinal cord was a Plexiglas box holding-no, not a hamster-a brainlike clump of tissue.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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At the top of the spinal cord was a Plexiglas box holding-no, not a hamster-a brainlike clump of tissue.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
 
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