In the 1970s I studied psychoneurobiology and psycho-neuroendocrinology in college under a Rhodes Scholar/Professor focusing on recovery of function in brain damaged humans and lab rats.

Now most of that research is out of date. I came to the conclusion that our brains are too complex to compare them to a computer. Now that AI has appeared I see AI as mimicking human intelligence and easily surpassing us in many ways. But in human history machines (before computers) have been used as a metaphor to describe human behavior. The rubic humans often use is: reduce in order to describe and explain. This cannot be done with consciousness in my opinion.

Habits that involve an interaction with any kind of machine - its easy to see the we humans adapt machine-like behaviors. My study of the brain and the emerging theories of the 70s/80s as brain as holographic model began to reveal a greater diversity.

I began wildly divergent views on consciousness since the mid 70s openings into spiritual experiences that out-stripped typical scientific inquiry.

Now I see our brains as amazing organic living being coordinated with our electrochemical body.

In short I have come to "see" that the brain is a transceiver of consciousness. Or our brains are mediators of conscious thought coupled with emotions reminiscent of panpsychism.

Most consciousness in space-time exists exogenously where original thought rarely appears in us meaning that thought is continuously reinvented and recycled within a narrow bandwidth we mistake for creativity. This has been evident over the past 10 to 8,000 years.