I don't agree. It depends on your definition of "learning" and "knowledge", I guess, but I think there's a big difference between types of knowledge to be acqui

I don't agree. It depends on your definition of "learning" and "knowledge", I guess, but I think there's a big difference between types of knowledge to be acquired, some of which simply cannot be achieved via computation. For example, a person could probably easily devise an algorithm to compute what a "y" value must be for a given (x,y) pair on a coordinate plane by successively applying additions to each previous input (similar to how you would implement a fibonacci sequence). You could graph lines this way. But with an insight that this potentially infinite task can be represented so concisely as f(x) = mx + b will take all this work out of your hands... That's not something that you necessarily would ever learn by performing any amount of computation. To achieve this insight, you have to have somehow risen above the level of base computation to an abstraction. For things that someone else has already figured out, sure, you could always expand on their work forever.