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Know this isn't my full reply, I'm trying to focus on one thing at a time until May, and it takes a time for me to write a response to you. I just was thinking about this anyway so I thought I would write my thoughts.
Yes, and it may be more natural to use a computer to its strengths, rather than pretending it be like a brain.
I was going to make a witticism about "Giant Electronic Brains" and intelligence augmentation in reply to this, but I started to think more about what the latter actually meant, of concretes. What does the machine offer but computation, memory, and input/output? If I can derive symbolic solutions, remember the significant, and visualize with greater ease in my mind how much is it really augmenting? It's a machine to reduce tedium, like a washing machine, to deal with information only interesting in aggregate, and to permit more advanced automatons. I won't change my standard of beauty on your account (and you not on mine), but I think I just now fully grasp what the computer is for.