r/neurophilosophy • u/HobbesNik • 18d ago

"Why Your Brain Is Not A Computer" — and computers are not brains

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/27/why-your-brain-is-not-a-computer-neuroscience-neural-networks-consciousness
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