Why Minds are not like Computers
"People who believe that the mind can be
replicated on a computer tend to explain the mind in terms of a
computer. When theorizing about the mind, especially to outsiders but
also to one another, defenders of artificial intelligence (AI) often
rely on computational concepts. They regularly describe the mind and
brain as the “software and hardware” of thinking, the mind as a
“pattern” and the brain as a “substrate,” senses as “inputs” and
behaviors as “outputs,” neurons as “processing units” and synapses as
“circuitry,” to give just a few common examples..."
Read the full article from The New Atlantis by Ari N. Shulman