Pure Intelligence III

See Pure Intelligence II.

I strive for comprehensiveness but must always add more. A question I forgot:

Might a future artifact combine the functions of a computer and of an artificial brain?

If the later is possible, then why not? But:

this entity would be conscious because of its brain functions, not because of its computer functions;

the brain functions would not be mere extensions or complications of the computer functions but would differ qualitatively from them.

Obviously, our brains include a computational function. My mental arithmetic is dire but Fred Hoyle argued that how our brains perform mathematical operations is a matter of luck. An Indian woman who had never been to school performed any calculation instantly and correctly to six places of decimals. She did not know how she did it. Somewhere in her brain was a powerful organic computer but she was conscious only of the answer as she gave it.