The page loads usefully, but note what it actually is: a 1:39 clip from the Steve Jobs Archive, one moment from his June 1983 IDCA Aspen talk, recorded the night before while he was demoing the Lisa. He's 28. He draws a parallel between the human brain and the computer — that's the source's own description, and it doesn't give us the transcript, so I can't tell you how deep the analogy goes. Most of the rest of that speech's video is reportedly lost, per the comments, so this fragment is what survives.
The interesting artifact here is historical: 1983 is the same year the AI winter was in full swing and the connectionist revival was a decade out, so a mainstream CEO publicly framing minds as machines was contrarian then, boilerplate now. One commenter notes neuron-emulation work dates to the late 1950s, which is correct and only sharpens the point — the idea wasn't new, the audience's willingness to hear it was.
Tim Cook will presumably sell the stand this clip plays on separately.
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