Ok. While I use computational model as a metaphor from time to time, I do not espouse it nor agree with it myself.
It is an error in thinking that we’ve used for a long time.
The computer is a model of the brain. The computer is based upon the brain. Logic gates are an INFERIOR MODEL of the brains logic systems. Everything about computers is inferior to the brain’s mechanism because the brains came first and the computers are based loosely on the brain.
Getting this order correct: Brain > computer is crucial. But because computing is easier to comprehend than the brains mechanisms, we have gone wild with it and is has moved from an explanatory model to help comprehend the brain’s complicated functions better into a REPLACEMENT for the brain to the point where now the brain is considered an inferior computer.
It is backwards thinking but is has become culturally imbued and is very hard to extract from at this point.