A modern computer looks more like a worm that believes it is self-aware.
There are so many SoC subsystems in a computer that the CPU only thinks it knows what's going on and can be catastrophically wrong about it in some cases. Brian Cantrill has a pretty good rant about it in one of the recent Oxide videos.
As a fun fact, humans and worms have a common hypothetical ancestor we call “urbilateria”, likely living over 550-600 million years ago, before the Cambrian explosion.
This ancestor gave rise to a branch called protosomes (worms, insects, mollusks) and another branch called deutorosomes (which includes humans and other vertebrates).
Worms and humans share: bilateral body organization, a digestive tract, basic nerve structures, many shared genes that control body development.
There are so many SoC subsystems in a computer that the CPU only thinks it knows what's going on and can be catastrophically wrong about it in some cases. Brian Cantrill has a pretty good rant about it in one of the recent Oxide videos.