John Graber

2673 days ago

Absolutely fantastic deconstruction of the prevailing, dominating conception of the brain as having strong similarities to a computer.

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

aeon.co

No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course.