Mastodawn

Every era mistakes its best tool for a mirror.

I read an old essay about the brain not being a computer and came away with a stranger question: are we wrong about LLMs, or have we always been bad at explaining ourselves? I wrote through that tension here:

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@gurupanguji

https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/03/30/human-brain-is-not-a-computer/

🔗 Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer // @gurupanguji

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For more than half ...