The title of the book, The Brain as a Computer, is intended to convey something of the methodology involved; the idea is to regard the brain itself as if it were a computer-type control system, in the belief that by so doing we are making explicit what for some time has been implicit in the biological sciences.
p.1 as cited in: T. Zetenyi (1988) Fuzzy Sets in Psychology. p.346 - The Brain As A Computer (1962)