User blog comment:Davinci./Parallel and simulated universes in fiction/@comment-1896-20090722145905

So far, science fiction has been dominated by the physical sciences. Within science fiction, the dominate dominant model of the human mind is "brain as computer hardware with the mind as a software program and data". We can make much better science fiction by adopting a more realistic way of thinking about the mind. Human minds are produced by human brains, but brains are not really like digital electronic computers. So that is my advice: if you want to do something new in this genre then incorporate sensible ideas about biology into your stories and drop the old fashioned computer/brain analogies that have so far dominated the field..