We always analogize the brain to the highest technology
available. In the 1940s, it was telephone switchboards - which
was a very complicated system. You can see bits of that left
over in the 'neurons' used in neural networking with their
simple weights: I like neural networking but they're based on a
limiting analogy. This is also a limiting analogy. Useful, but
we've all grown into a habit of making brain based on the
computer whereas it's that the computer is based upon the brain.
This distinction of order is critical - and it USED to be taught
that way, but now we've fallen so in love with
computing-as-everything, we've forgotten the analogy is going
the wrong direction.
