> > The brain has always been compared with a highly sophisticated computer. > This is not strictly true. It is just a small stylistic lapse. The author used

> > The brain has always been compared with a highly sophisticated computer. > This is not strictly true. It is just a small stylistic lapse. The author used "always" in the sense of "frome time to time since we have digital computers". To suggest that he would think that people before the invention of the computer could have compared the brain to a computer seems quite absurd to me. And trivial that they did not.