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by birdsongs 50 days ago
Can computers simulate all the laws, even theoretically? We don't have a final theory / unification of all the physics frameworks, so I'm not sure if that claim can be made. Ex: the standard model and gravity.
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I'm assuming that you don't need to model e.g. quantum gravity effects to faithfully simulate a brain. Probably chemistry is enough *shrug.

Some people think that consciousness is related to quantum mechanics, but the laws of quantum mechanics can be simulated with a Turing machine so that doesn't necessarily change the story.

We know the physics at which the brain operates, a deeper uncomputable foundation theory isn’t going to change that. An analogy is we know if you drop a ball it falls down, knowledge of some deeper quantum gravity theory isn’t going to mean ball’s actually fall up.