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by RetroTechie 1039 days ago
Yes, and there's things like feedback / reflection, self-modifying like behaviour, lossy memory, emotional state, tiredness, aging, loads of drugs & hormones to influence the process, etc, etc.

Buuuttt... it's possible that few if any of those things are needed to capture the essence of a brains' functionality.

Maybe it's simply a matter of size. Maybe some configuration tweaks. Perhaps a different architecture.

We simply don't know - yet.

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> few if any of those things are needed to capture the essence of a brains' functionality

I'm pretty sure all those things being dismissed are the essence of a brain.