Yes, this is precisely what I thought as I read it. I don't doubt his expertise on the brain side, but he characterises the computer in a very limited way, alm

Yes, this is precisely what I thought as I read it. I don't doubt his expertise on the brain side, but he characterises the computer in a very limited way, almost perfectly suited to make his argument. With the reconstruction of the dollar there are plenty of examples how computers need not store entire instances of a thing to be able to recognise it later, such as applications of hash functions or doing spam filtering.