[Pxtl]

Thinking of the brain as a computing platform is never a good metaphor. Neural networks do not have a rigid delineation between instruction-storage, data-storage, and CPU. Every neuron wears all three hats and intertwingles those concepts.

[LesZedCB]

Von Neumann architecture isn't the only form of computation that exists.

[Pxtl]

Fair enough. I obviously meant a typical desktop/laptop/smartphone/server/whatever.

[lutusp]

True. If it were, what humans do with their biological CPUs would be impossible. Too bad we don't understand our own brains.

[ivanca]

In our defense, they didn't grow to be understood but to serve its purpose. So it's akin to a code base with billions of years in the making, without any good documentation.

[dsuth]

Think you meant 'intertwines'. Thanks for the laugh :D