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by friendlybus 2335 days ago
Degrees of wrongness along history would make sense in this discussion if computing were the only path for understanding the brain.

Ancients used to think that thinking happened in the gut and recently the microbiome pathway for describing thought has re-emerged. Both the gut pathway and the computational stream could be wrong.

The outcome of seeing the brain as a computational device will run out of juice like revelation has.