Comment by yreg

Philosophers of mind have always tried to describe the brain using contemporary technology analogies. It's only natural and nothing to frown at.

Descartes compared the human mind to waterworks and hydraulic machines, other authors used mechanical clocks, telegraph systems, digital computers, and (in the recent decades) neural networks.

In the end it's all computing and to a degree all of those models serve as good analogies to the wetware, one just needs to avoid drawing wild conclusions from it.

I'm sure there will be new analogies in the future as our tech progresses.

We don't literally train on today's prompts while we sleep, but there actually _are_ some _computing_ tasks going on in our brains at that time that seem to be important for the system.