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Well my stance is hard for the sake of ruling out computer science as an explanatory framework for neuroscience. Computational metaphors arent explanatory, the
by mjburgess 8y ago
Well my stance is hard for the sake of ruling out computer science as an explanatory framework for neuroscience.
Computational metaphors arent explanatory, they're illusory sorts of explanations (like narrative) which "satisfy" without providing a causal model (ie., a scientific explanation).
I'm not convinced they have been helpful, and mostly end up giving deeply mistaken impressions about the nature of digital computers -- rather than helpful impressions about the nature of brains.
- marmaduke 8y agoComputational metaphors about the brain usually acknowledge explicitly the nonlinearity of information transformation, and use the word computation under the assumption the transformation is doing something useful. This hardly seems controversial so I find the statements you’re making a bit allergic.