"Just" is something of a sneaky word: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-software-development/ https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-mos

"Just" is something of a sneaky word: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-software-development/ https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-... But by some measure, human thinking is itself math: emergent pattern-recognition traveling through cortical hierarchies and deeply nested layers of abstraction and metaphor. While it's indisputable that there's a qualitative leap between something like computer vision, and the basic reasoning capacity and perceptual systems of a human (even a toddler), there isn't anything intrinsically magical about atoms rather than bytes. It appears to simply be a factor of scale, and the billion-year-old "legacy code" gifted to our wetware by iterated selection pressures.