Edsger Dijkstra famously made such a comparison [1]: "The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the h

Edsger Dijkstra famously made such a comparison [1]: "The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." [1] E. W. Dijkstra, EWD898: The threats to computing science