The premise of this article is solid. The brain evolved first and foremost as a #control mechanism. Symbolic “information processing” is a later development.

However, just from reading the reactions in the comments section, one can easily see that #computationalism is still very much the mainstream theory of mind.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

The 20th century is said to have been the “age of #machines” because all explanations of how things work would end in some kind of computing or “information processing” by a known #mechanism.

Some people think that the 21st century will be the “age of #biology” because science seems starting to look at nature and the living #organism for inspiration about how things really work.

If this is true then #Computationalism must be one of the last remnants of the past century.

1943 - The year when it all started:
#Cybernetics, #Computationalism, #ANN
From: Brains, Machines, and Mathematics
by: Michael A. Arbib