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I remember hearing someone answer "if the brain was simple enough that we could understand it, it would be so simple that we wouldn't" to that question. Can a
by vinchuco 9y ago
I remember hearing someone answer "if the brain was simple enough that we could understand it, it would be so simple that we wouldn't" to that question.
Can a computer compute itself?
- booleandilemma 9y agoSo we can only understand the brain because it is complex. The brain may be the only object with this property.
- dredmorbius 9y agoIC design is largely a process of simulating and specifying the next generation of integrated circuits. So in the strict sense, not only can a computer compute itself, but it can compute its (more capable) successor generation. Practically, this now occurs in large server farms, so it takes a large number of computers to compute themselves and/or progeny. But this is very much what happens.