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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

Brain Inspired

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The Problem With Computational Modeling

I don't think that the computational metaphor is going to provide that vocabulary for us. I think it's probably fundamentally mistaken, even just from a kind of evolutionary standpoint,. The notion that that's the sort of thing that would have evolved is a computer of a particular kind. But it's not clear to me that they're explanatory in this strong sense because the trouble with computational modeling is it's too powerful.

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