Thinking of the brain as a computing platform is never a good metaphor. Neural networks do not have a rigid delineation between instruction-storage, data-storage, and CPU. Every neuron wears all three hats and intertwingles those concepts.
Von Neumann architecture isn't the only form of computation that exists.
True. If it were, what humans do with their biological CPUs would be impossible. Too bad we don't understand our own brains.
In our defense, they didn't grow to be understood but to serve its purpose. So it's akin to a code base with billions of years in the making, without any good documentation.
Fair enough. I obviously meant a typical desktop/laptop/smartphone/server/whatever.
Think you meant 'intertwines'. Thanks for the laugh :D