The author conflates brains and minds. Of course brain wetware is not computer hardware, but Minds run on wetware as computation runs on hardware. He claims w

The author conflates brains and minds. Of course brain wetware is not computer hardware, but Minds run on wetware as computation runs on hardware. He claims we don't use algorithms to catch balls but then describes the heuristic we do use algorithmically. He attacks von Neumann's nascent speculations that the mind can be usefully modelled digitally but ignores von Neumann's proposal for an alternative type of computation, indeterminate & probabalistic - from the same book The Computer & the Brain (1958). The inability of most people to draw from memory as accurately as from life is evidence of compatmentalisation not a lack of storage of mental images - as drawing from memory is a skill that can be aquired. Then he goes all in by proposing hard AI as fact: "Reasonable premise #1: all computers are capable of behaving intelligently" No doubt minds and brains are a deeper mystery than silicon and software but the author fails to demonstrate why or propose how. IMHO the Roboticist Rodney Brooks was onto something when he proposed intelligence must be embodied - AI will come from interacting with the world. The author cites Chemero's work Radical Embodied Cognitive Sciencr which is very very well argued and interesting.