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by Fishysoup 2400 days ago
The comment was about universal Bayesian brains and other things that are quite a stretch to say the least. Of course, since our brains are made of physical matter, they must perform computations that other physical matter can perform.

The trap is to think about the brain in terms of things we find impressive, and about things we find impressive as being like brains somehow. Therefore analogies to steam engines, computers and deep learning. And these analogies have always turned out to be silly.