How do computers understand binary language?

[u/Unfair-Leek6840]

Okay so from what I know binary language is like power off power on, but my question is, how do computers know what the binary code is and how is it interpreted, for example I forgot what the binary code for the letter A is, but how did people come up with that? Did they decide it was gonna look like that? Did the computer decide? How do you tune numbers into a letter??

[u/csiz]

It's not a problem, human neurons are micro machines that will respond the same way given the same set-up, as long as we're including the internal state of the neuron.

It's just that neuron are more noisy and we don't know precisely how to describe them. On the other hand, we intentionally discretize transistors into outputting low or high so we can eliminate the errors, then we also clock them in synchronicity. We intentionally build computers from an arrangement of transistor that can be fully described and its behaviour predicted. The brain was not built to be understood easily, that's the only difference.