[orlp]

> stating human brains are actually hypercomputers, which cannot be implemented in real life at the moment

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[adgjlsfhk1]

it's pretty easy to prove that a brain can simulate a Turing machine, and it's pretty hard to disbelieve that a computer can simulate a brain (by running the physics)

[astrange]

If a brain is a hypercomputer (like a quantum computer), then you could simulate it on a classical computer; you'd just never be able to do it in constant time, so it could never be fast enough to catch up with reality.

Also, you wouldn't be able to simulate a specific existing brain due to the quantum no-cloning theorem.

[orlp]

The claim I find objectionable is that brains do 'hypercomputation', and can not be ran on a Turing machine.

[stelonix]

Brains can solve the halting problem, Turing machines cannot.

[adgjlsfhk1]

no they can't.