[plokiju]

I'm not seeing the distinction. All computation "just is". computation happens through the physical world. adder circuits are performing a computation. an x86 CPU is nothing but a bunch of dumb circuits. water canals can do computations just like electrical circuits. as can biological neurons.

This is a computer with all the abstractions stripped away [1]. It's hard to see the loops and conditionals from the falling marbles, but it is processing information. And electrical computers are essentially the same thing, just scaled up to an unimaginable degree

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOvLL8ok8I

[foolswisdom]

At every point in history, people thought that they could describe the brain using whatever advanced technology they had.

<https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...>

[plokiju]

Read the comments on that link for a summary of my thoughts.

> But neither the song nor the poem has been ‘stored’ in it. The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain conditions

Oof