In the meantime, in the more philosophical and epistemological literature, it has become clear that 'computer simulation' does not have one stable meaning but covers a number of different un- derstandings resulting in a set of different philosophical assumptions on their supposed epistemological ...
It is one thing to argue that brains are (or are not) computers of some kind. It is quite another to argue that they are TMs in particular. The earliest suggestion to that effect is McCulloch and Pitts (1943). For a critical and historical review of that classic paper, see Piccinini ...