[iforgotpassword]

I was irritated by how strongly the author insists that "nothing is stored in the brain", almost to a point where the author seems to suggest it's stored somewhere else entirely, when after paragraphs of paragraphs the gist of it is that information is not stored directly, like in the case of the dollar bill, not as a bitmap, so to speak. There is still some form of incomplete, lossy encoding of information and knowledge stored in the brain. I don't see how this would invalidate the analogies with computers.

This isn't new or groundbreaking in any way. Cognitive science basically tries to figure out the "algorithms" at work when we store or retrieve information. They're still analogies of course, but that we don't have an image of a dollar bill stored in some synapses hardly isn't news to anyone in the field.

[tetris11]

Isn't it simply a PCA/DimRed?

i.e. I am the sum of all trillion of my features, but I am also mostly the sum of a set of a few thousand informative ones combined in linear/nonlinear ways

You could drop a verse or two of Shakespeare from my memory and I'd probably still be recognisable to myself and those around me

[kuschku]

> almost to a point where the author seems to suggest it's stored somewhere else entirely

These "the brain isn't a computer" essays never quite say it but obviously assume the existence of a kind of "soul".