Mindo. Never been there.

The mind. Mostly (or always) been there.

Processors. All around us.

Micro. Prefix / 10^(-6) multiplier.

Microprocessors. Just processors, albeit with some stress on the original gate length of the transistors involved - now a misnomer. Nanoprocessor is a more accurate term, but who cares. Just like how an inbox isn’t really a physical entity anymore.

But mindoprocessors? Always around us. Take our minds and processorize them - there’s memory, there’s a rate of thoughts firing around, there’s a bunch of calculations, there’s inputs, outputs - all of these things cocktailed into an abstract notion of information exchange. It is a processor, after all.

Or is it, really? Do computers with micro nanoprocessors think? There are enough discussions on this topic already and there isn’t much I can add to it. But that’s not the point.

We can treat our minds as processors, scheduling tasks like eating, breathing, excreting, reading, running, and everything else into time-bound chunks and executing them one by one. Some may occur in parallel, and some need extreme concentration of mental resources (try solving math problems while watching a movie other than The Imitation Game). Some tasks take higher priorities (you’d rather run when chased by a bear, and not stand and solve Sudoku puzzles), some require a lot of RAM ((cup), (cup, saucer), (cup, saucer, spoon), (cup, saucer, spoon, napkin), …), and even others require fast access times (say, avoiding punches while boxing).

But a computer doesn’t usually burn out - it is because of strong determinism in the tasks to execute, and the algorithms that govern the functionality. Alas, that’s where arises a huge difference between nano- and mindo-processors.

We just don’t know what our minds are going to be hit with. Such nondeterminism.

But life goes on.