I think it's better (or just more intuitive, given my interests) to describe the brain as a distributed system than a single multi-proces processing Von Neumann

I think it's better (or just more intuitive, given my interests) to describe the brain as a distributed system than a single multi-proces processing Von Neumann type machine - there are components in different parts of the brain that do work independently and then send the results over the "network". Some network failures and node outages are... not dealt with gracefully.