Philosopher challenges the 'brain as computer' metaphor of mind

Philosopher Dorothea Olkowski argues in IAI News that the foundational metaphor of modern neuroscience and AI—'the brain is hardware, the mind is software'—may be a fatal scientific error, proposing instead that consciousness arises from the brainstem rather than cortical computation.

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