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Working PC, emulating our minds essentially (6,9)

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I believe the answer is:

neural computing

'working pc emulating our minds essentially' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'working pc emulating our minds essentially' is the wordplay.
'working' is an anagram indicator.
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle of 'minds' is 'n'.
'pc'+'emulating'+'our'+'n'='pcemulatingourn'
'pcemulatingourn' with letters rearranged gives 'NEURAL COMPUTING'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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