[feralimal]

I actually think this kind of nonsense comes from the predisposition humans have to empathise and anthropomorphise things.

So, yeah, in a way a brain is like a computer, it works as a metaphor. But no, a brain not a computer in reality. So a poor use of metaphor.

Or in another way, this sort of stuff comes from confusion in conflating the map with the terrain - a map can be useful at one level, but it is not the terrain itself so useless at a different level of observation.