This guide discusses the different ways of thinking of the mind and body. The author discusses people thinking of the brain as a separate entity from the body but that can’t be entirely true. Even if the brain isn’t as connected as we necessarily think it is with our body, it is still definitely connected. This article explains that some people started to view the mind as like a computer program and the physical brain was the hardware to run it. I think if you are going to make this comparison you should broaden it to say that the whole body is the computer and the mind is the coding. The mind tells all the “programs” of your body what to do. It controls everything from what comes out of your mouth to how you move your arms and legs. That is why I think that the better metaphor is that the body is the computer and the brain can still be the hardware, it is just the hardware that reads the coding that tells all the other programs on the computer what to do. I think this also translates a little more literally as obviously you do have a lot of coding actually in your brain, your DNA. This is just my spin-off on the way the article said that some people were viewing brains.