Stanley Jaki in his book _Brains, Mind, and Computers_ considers the role of computers in understanding the brain but argues against physicalism and the notion of artificial intelligence.
One interesting consideration of Jaki's is the idea of David Hartley that W = F^2/L meaning that the magnitude of man's love of the world W is indicated by the relative strength of F man's fear of God and man's love of God L. Jaki rewrites this as L = W X F^2 to show that man's love of God is the product of man's love of the world and man's fear of God showing a contradiction.
Jaki also considers the role of computers and maintains that Godel's incompleteness results show that it is always possible for the human mind to "out-Godel" a machine by constructing a Godel sentence. This demonstrates that human intelligence and the human mind cannot be reduced to mechanical algorithm. This result was first discussed by Lucas.
Jaki considers the role of a series of intelligent machines each designing another intelligent machine. Jaki maintains that such shows the necessity of a First Designer or an Undesigned Designer arguing in lines with Aristotle's and Aquinas's argument for an uncaused cause.
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