It is especially weird that people in this day and age would even think of the brain as a single computer instead of as a network of computers. I have no idea how well that analogy holds, but it does seem like a natural base assumption to have. That image you are viewing in your browser might be on a completely different hard drive in a completely different datacenter from month to month.
I don't think it makes sense to think of the brain as even a network of (microprocessor style) computers. The brain is almost surely a computer in the theoretical sense of the word, i.e. it is equivalent to the lambda calculus or a Turing machine.
But there is no reason to expect that the computational model has any resemblance to the one used in PCs. There are good reasons to believe that the brain's functions are not based on binary logic circuits, that (some) memories are not simple storage etc.
Agreed. What I meant was that networking is the paradigm of the times when it comes to computing, so you would expect THAT to be the base assumption, not a 20 year out of date stand-alone computer.
