On and off blips of light were used to represent the 1s and 0s of binary computer code.

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On and off blips of light were used to represent the ones and zeros of binary computer code.

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The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white).

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They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.

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In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.

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