Reflection paperChapter 9: Thought, language and intelligence interested me a lot. It goes over the basics that make humans human. How we communicate with others, resolve our problems in life, create controversies over our opinions, teach others our mistakes, and discover that people can be more than what you think they are. Thinking is such a strange concept to me that I think about writing a paper and I have endless possibilities of what I could write. I find it astonishing that we are compared to computers, when our brain is much more powerful than the fastest computer. Our brain is constantly adapting and always connecting its experiences with those of the past; we learn concepts, rules and create relationships. We form concepts in order to generalize, to connect things, to help our memory and to facilitate our reactions to certain environments and situations. Unlike computers, we can know when we need to rest or when we catch a virus. The brain is constantly storing information and if it is not retained or is not important enough, we get rid of it, instead of storing unnecessary information that obstructs our processing. Although our brains are more complex and certainly contain more data, computers and our brains share characteristics. We both have an input of information, the processing stage and then the final output of the information. Computers only use algorithms while our brains can use algorithms and heuristics. Even though our brain uses more than one form of decision-making, it creates obstacles for itself. We often like to delay our decision making, but ultimately we try to make the decision that serves us best, otherwise we learn from our mistakes (hopefully) to become a better person and change the next time we will face a similar situation. ....... middle of paper ......e but it means completely different things, in Spanish if you have an accent on a letter it completely changes the meaning. Instead of saying I went to the store with my father, you say I went to the store with my potato. I know that some foreign languages ​​make clicking, grunting, and guttural noises. Last year I had a Brazilian and German exchange student and I was listening to Anna, a German exchange student, talking to her parents, she looked so angry but she was just talking about my cat or his day. I find languages ​​to be such an enjoyable thing that people can use to improve their knowledge of the world and talk to people the way they naturally do. Works Cited MacNamara, A. (2013, Fall term). Thought, intelligence and psychology of language 100. Classroom lecture. Centralia College, Centralia, Washington.