Except comparing body to hardware and mind to software doesn't make much sense. If you want a better comparison, you could compare the mind to what happens wit

Except comparing body to hardware and mind to software doesn't make much sense. If you want a better comparison, you could compare the mind to what happens within the CPU. Other chips would be other organs/subsystems, connected by veins, nerves and various canals (power and data buses). Then you'd have peripherals (limbs) with their firmware (reflexes), and sensors (eyes). All of those communicate together and have side effects on each other. In the analogy, the body is the whole computer, and the CPU is a part of it, they aren't two separate entities that run in parallel. If you want to compare hardware <> software, for humans it'd rather be flesh <> electrical/chemical signals. You'll notice that almost all interesting behavior happens on the right side of the <>. Flesh/hardware are pretty boring, they mostly limit performance and just have to be in good enough condition to function. Slight alterations of those (burnt transistor, internal bleeding) will bring everything down.