I don’t think there’s anything confusing about the standard view in that example, as I said, the standard view allows for a recurrent brain, and it is consistent with being able to sit and think. My point here is that it is unhelpful in understanding how it is that brains compute. It gives a plausible story for the conditions under which cognitive systems might have come to be, but it does little in the way of explaining how it is that systems that came about in that way actually work, especially in more cognitive cases.
I don’t think there’s anything confusing about the standard view in that example, as I said, the standard view allows for a recurrent brain, and it is consistent with being able to sit and think. My point here is that it is unhelpful in understanding how it is that brains compute. It gives a plausible story for the conditions under which cognitive systems might have come to be, but it does little in the way of explaining how it is that systems that came about in that way actually work, especially in more cognitive cases.