I s "thinking" a "computation"? If so, making a computer "think" should be a simple problem of engineering. Almost all popular movies featuring "intelligent machines" make this assumption. Sooner or later, machines with "out-think" us. What would be another way of seeing this? As a starting point, let me create an image of a "mind" as  local disturbances in meme space . I visualize this "disturbance" as typically not confined to a single brain, but more typically a "wave" spreading through connected minds. This is an evocative image but the word "meme" is itself a "meme" that suffers greatly from over-use and lack of rigor .  To make the idea more rigorous, I recommend " Surfaces and Essences " by Sandler and Hofstadter.  This gives a more close-up view of how humans "think" and it hints that the "computation" underlying thinking is the  analo