The idea of the brain as a computer is being replaced, at least metaphorically by it as a deep learning mechanism. If you think about deep learning mechanisms, we don't know why that input causes that output. So now if you look upon the computations in the brain as not being fixed algorithms, which is the old computer model dating back from Norbert Wiener, cyber genetics, and that kind of thing. It isn't like that. Same input into two different neural mechanisms won't give you the same output.

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