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I'm inherently skeptical of these kinds of computer-influenced metaphors of the mind. In programming terms, evolution is not known for producing well-factored designs with clean interfaces, as the phrasing here would imply.
It seems to me much more likely that the mind is a made out of piles of spaghetti code, with millions of global variables, random important-sounding lines commented out for no obvious reason, and probably numerous security flaws and concurrency-related bugs.
This doesn't necessarily undermine your point, but be careful not to be led astray by the metaphor.
True enough, but there are still roughly definable regions and roughly definable functions. The degree to which this is clearly reflected in the underlying neurology is unknown.
We need to distinguish between computers, and the electronic devices that have become popular. The brain is clearly the first, and clearly not the second.