Brains Without Blueprints: Embracing Embodied Life Over Computer Metaphors
In this Nature book review, Romain Brette argues that treating the brain as a programmable computer misleads our understanding of cognition. He critiques neuro-computationalism and the idea that the brain merely processes information, proposing instead an embodied, ecological view in which cognition emerges from the body’s interactions with its environment and anticipation guides action. Brains are dynamic, self‑organizing systems shaped by life, not static machinery.
