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BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes

Brain Inspired

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The Computer Metaphor of the Brain as an Information Processing Computer

The machine conception of the organism is directly paralleled in the computer metaphor of the brain, or the brain as an information processing system. I'm just curious if you have any thoughts on, you know, if you would explore that literature at all and have thoughts on the computer metaphor  of the brain As a useful metaphor, but there are some dangers in assuming that the only way to think about what's happening and what's going on in the brain is in terms of information processing, right?

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