Assured Quote by John Searle

“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a glorified sausage…

— Steve Grand

“the human brain is a binary system—synapses either fire or they don’t—they are on or off, like a computer switch. The brain has over…

— Dan Brown

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be…

— Freeman Dyson

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

— Siri Hustvedt

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain.…

— Michio Kaku

We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from…

— Michio Kaku

“In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

— John Searle

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

— Robert C. Solomon

Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

“When you get down to it, our brains are essentially computers that are programmed in certain ways, take in data, and spit out instructions.…

— Ray Dalio