Uploaded May 2016 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Our guest today is Robert Epstein, who is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioural Research and Technology in California. He is the author of 15 books, and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. His books include 'Teen 2.0: Saving our children and families from the torment of adolescence' and 'Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and methodological issues in the quest for the thinking computer'. He’s going to talk to us today about why the brain is not a computer and how the computer metaphor is not only incorrect but unhelpful.
Here's the link to the Aeon article: aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
Our guest today is Robert Epstein, who is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioural Research and Technology in California. He is the author of 15 books, and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. His books include 'Teen 2.0: Saving our children and families from the torment of adolescence' and 'Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and methodological issues in the quest for the thinking computer'. He’s going to talk to us today about why the brain is not a computer and how the computer metaphor is not only incorrect but unhelpful.
Here's the link to the Aeon article: aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
