I've been working on an essay in which I point out an ignored implication of a very popular neuroscience debate -- whether the brain is a computer. In it, I focus on the idea that through reinforcing the metaphor, the tech industry wields it such that society gives special status to AI for making important decisions which it shouldn't. And because the neuroscience and computer science fields share a historically close relationship, neuroscientists may be inadvertently pushing pervasive forms of tech-solutionism which have been shown to be harmful to marginalized folk. It's taking longer to put it together than I had planned, but here's a small piece (to be edited): If the computer is a brain, what’s missing from the metaphor? Input: To make data usable for a computer, often a series of human interventions needs to first be performed: collecting, cleaning, processing, and labeling are all crucial steps in getting a computer to “learn” patterns in the data. But what are