[thisisforyou]

I don't think there is any reason to believe that the brain is like a computer in any meaningful way. Both the brain and an electronic computer are able to operate on information, but beyond that the differences between the two far outweigh the similarities on pretty much every level. Even neural nets (that is, the machine learning algorithm) are just general, very simplified, models of how some parts of the brain are constructed. True, neural nets can do things similar to things that the brain can do (like describing images) but this is really only a facile similarity, to my understanding.