I found myself agreeing at first, but today, you could make much the same argument about computers, by which I mean the term "computer" is so overloaded from th

I found myself agreeing at first, but today, you could make much the same argument about computers, by which I mean the term "computer" is so overloaded from the original definition of a "machine to compute numbers/equations". If you approach a more general definition, something like "a computer is machine capable of interpreting arbitrary instructions in arbitrary ways that as long as those instructions follow arbitrary rules can achieve arbitrary ends", saying a brain is an equivalent machine hardly seems reductive. It mainly seems pointless.