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by plokiju 944 days ago
At the same time, pretending that brains don't obey the laws of computation has its own implications, which can confuse unprepared minds into thinking:

1) That brains are something supernatural, instead of physical information processing systems that can be analyzed and understood as such.

2) That digital turing-complete computers are limited and can't possibly do the kinds of complex processing that biological computers can do

Which is also misleading

A brain is not a Turing machine, but a Turing machine can be a brain. Biological brains are just a subset in the space of all possible computers

But I don't think either of us is confused, so this is just a conversation about the semantics, which I'm not very interested in

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> A brain is not a Turing machine, but a Turing machine can be a brain.

At this point I regret I wasted my time explaining what's wrong with your reasoning :)

Peace!