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Electronic circuits (a) are the iconic representations of standard computing machines. Brains (b) and computer circuits have been often compared as implementations of hardware systems capable of performing computations. The analogy has some realistic elements (such as common laws for minimization of wiring costs) and obvious drawbacks.
