How to breathe life back into brain theory - Nature
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Neuroscience's dominant "brain-as-computer" metaphor may be quietly strangling our understanding of consciousness — and one researcher thinks it's time to pull the plug.
Computational Theory of MindEmbodied CognitionDynamical Systems TheoryMetaphor Theory
Theory Briefing
- Neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues the brain-as-computer metaphor has become a conceptual cage limiting real scientific progress.
- The computational framework treats neurons like processors, but this analogy may obscure the brain's fundamentally biological and embodied nature.
- Reviving brain theory means embracing richer frameworks — from dynamical systems to phenomenology — that honor the brain's living complexity.