I'd love to see where the mind/body dichotomy is so prevalent, again teach us oh-wise-master.

It is all about us and that is the problem; it encompasses everything that we know. These are matters that we pick up through social osmosis. We absorb it without any thought on intention. The only remedy is to become a self-actualizing self-learner.

The 'mind as computer' idea is intrinsically flawed and this can be easily demonstrated by the manner in which they 'remember' facts.

A computer remembers smaller bits of informantion more easily than larger ones.
A human mind, however remembers larger pieces of information more easily.

When you ask a child to remember the alphabet for the first time, they find it nearly impossible to remember 26 pieces of data. But when you add a tune to the data, it is remembered more easily.

Similarly when swatting for an exam, if you need to remember a list of items, its much much easier if you make up a story around that list. The more assosiations you make with that list the easier it is to remember - paradoxically.

In the same manner, even remembering a 5-digit pin code becomes much easier if you remember the numbers in groups with meanings. eg : 12536 is easier to remember if you note that the number is also 5x5x5 ... 6x6

But having said that, I agree with the notion that philosophy needs to be grounded on a physical level. Especially when we are dealing with the humanities. Ethics for example that tries to contrive characters in examples often makes assumptions that do not gel with psychology. It would be better to base such ideas on real people.

This is not quite true. First, a computer remembers both sizes equally well, it just happens that differently from human beings, its capacity is limited, while humans have enough space to never run out of it. Second, these facilities on remembering are caused not by the size of the data, but the amount of copies. Evertime we remember something that memory is modified a bit and copied to some other place of memory. A music calls more attention than just an abstract piece of information and therefore gets copied about more times, and since its composed of several pieces of information there are also greater chances of pieces staying on memory wich will be used to re-make the whole then we remember. A computer would too acess an information faster if it had several copies of it on memory. Also, we lose neurons and pieces of information with then, computers dont lose little pieces of their memory all the time what explains part of why our minds are not that much like then.