Mainstream theories of the brain are often expressed through engineering concepts—computation, code, control, reverse-engineering, optimization.
These theories cast the living organism as a machine and the brain as a computer. The fact that cognition is a biological phenomenon seems merely anecdotal; biology is considered just “implementation.”
“In The Brain, In Theory,” Romain Brette argues that the brain is not a “biological computer” because living organisms are not engineered.
