>Computers, quite literally, process information – numbers, letters, words, formulas, images. The information first has to be encoded into a format computers ca

>Computers, quite literally, process information – numbers, letters, words, formulas, images. The information first has to be encoded into a format computers can use, which means patterns of ones and zeroes (‘bits’) organised into small chunks (‘bytes’). Sorry, now you are looking at a computer at the logical level, not the physical, what is it REALLY doing. If you are going to claim there is no place in the brain where a word or a piece of music is stored (presumably because there is no literal, printed word representation in your brain?) then you can't quite make the same claim of a computer. We consider the components of a computer to be logically digital, but under the covers all transistors are analog, and all the workings of the computer are analog. We just throw away voltage transitions and we lump some range of voltages as "on" logically and some other range of voltages as "off" logically. It takes time for the circuits to reach their final state. I assume the same is true of the brain. At some level, there are no symbols or numbers or memories to be found. There's just neurons firing or not, in context with other neurons. Same with computers, there's just little amplifiers supporting some voltage in some context with other amplifiers. That's it. Or not, depending on what level you want to look it.