http://organelle.org/bmoon/bluemoon.html

“The brain can be reasonably analogized as a sort of costly evolutionary flower produced by long organic ‘crystallization’ of these processes; however, I must suggest that the consensus amongst many modern researchers regarding the brain’s nature and function is so badly misinformed by mechanical metaphors that we would be wise to begin any intrepid exploration with a bold denial of understanding. We should begin at zero. The extant models are insufficient to explain anything at all, never mind brains.

While we should not discard the opinions of science regarding identity (and sometimes function), I prefer to treat them somewhat like dangerous parasites looking for hosts. These ideas have become parasitic precisely because their incompleteness is glaring, and this is why they must advertise their authority (through every accessible human agency) so furiously and consistently. In some branches of science, current theory slavishly compares the brain to a computer, which is approximately as accurate as exclaiming that a galaxy containing living worlds ‘must be a pair of tweezers — after all, its gravity picks things up’.

Would that the hubris of our modern intellectual ignorance ended there, for there are highly educated people who would gladly advance such an agenda: ‘the goal must be to produce tweezers, instead of organisms — we should convert everything into nanotweezing dust, which can tweeze better and faster than organisms anyway…’ “