I've often thought (in the sci-fi sense) about the idea of distilling down to the core of what only a brain can do that a turing machine cannot, and then hookin

I've often thought (in the sci-fi sense) about the idea of distilling down to the core of what only a brain can do that a turing machine cannot, and then hooking up say a fruit fly brain to perform this "brain" function organically, while the rest is augmented with traditional computation.