On: The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps

[mallowfram]

The brain is nothing like a computer.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF → mallowfram]

They both have input and output and obey the laws of material nature. They take in information, make decisions, and then take action.

Or is the brain not mathematical?

[mallowfram → 01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Brains are none of those things. Thoughts aren't about things, there's no content to thoughts, and what it expresses, it behaves nothing the way computers do. https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...

[pixl97 → mallowfram]

Ah, psychologists contriving arguments on why the brain isn't some particular thing or another. Or, that "phycologist learns about fuzzy edge/component compression"