‘Brains as computers is a fairy-story for people who have not yet had any experience that leads them beyond the idea that they are created in the image of one of the tools they invented. It is somewhat like thinking yourself a cartoon since, after all, ‘we’re both so animated’.

They have confused themselves with machines; a rather startling error, since machines are inanimate and assembled from parts made by humans, and living beings, who are transentient by nature, can only emerge from wholes…’ — me