"The Brain Is Not a Computer" Argument Resurfaces

Robert Epstein's Aeon essay "The empty brain" is circulating again, arguing that the brain does not store, retrieve, or process information like a computer. Follow-up discussion notes that neural coding may be lossy and redundant, challenging the view of the brain as a simple information-processing system.

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