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“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
by wintorez 5y ago
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
- robwwilliams 5y agoHmm, but perhaps we could manage to understand the brain and behavior of a fruitfly or even a mouse. The “self-conscious” tier is trivial recursion. Hofstadter has this right in “I Am A Strange Loop”.