Alva Noe's Analysis

Alva Noe begins his essay with a full paragraph informing the reader about Sebastian Seung’s plan to build a map of the human brain. After this paragraph, Noe attempts to develop an argument against the idea of the brain map by using an irrelevant example. “Trying to understand how the brain work […] would be like trying to understand how a bird flies by examining individual feathers. “ This “evidence” doesn’t fully support Noe’s argument and is off topic. In the next paragraph, Noe attempts to use an analogy about computers and how they work. While this example could be useful, Noe spends a whole paragraph of his essay talking about computers instead of brain maps. In paragraph seven, the writer returns to both the topic of computers