This kind of thinking leads to the more general idea that the brain has inputs (e.g. photoreceptor cells), outputs (e.g. motoneurons … also, fun fact, the brain is a gland!), and algorithms connecting them
No, nothing leads to the idea that there are brain algorithms, specifically. There is something going on between input and output, and it somewhat high level , in that it isn’t critically dependent on low level physical details and—that’s it. No brain algorithm has been identified. If the brain is a programmable computer, with a clear software/hardware distinction, it might be reasonable to believe in unobserved brain algorithms, but the brain is not known to be a programmable computer, either. It could be special purpose hardware, instead.
“Brain algorithms” has the same problem as computationalism itself .. widely believed , on nobasis.
No, nothing leads to the idea that there are brain algorithms, specifically. There is something going on between input and output, and it somewhat high level , in that it isn’t critically dependent on low level physical details and—that’s it. No brain algorithm has been identified. If the brain is a programmable computer, with a clear software/hardware distinction, it might be reasonable to believe in unobserved brain algorithms, but the brain is not known to be a programmable computer, either. It could be special purpose hardware, instead.
“Brain algorithms” has the same problem as computationalism itself .. widely believed , on nobasis.