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> stating human brains are actually hypercomputers, which cannot be implemented in real life at the moment Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,
by orlp 4y ago
> stating human brains are actually hypercomputers, which cannot be implemented in real life at the moment
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoit's pretty easy to prove that a brain can simulate a Turing machine, and it's pretty hard to disbelieve that a computer can simulate a brain (by running the physics)
- orlp 4y agoThe claim I find objectionable is that brains do 'hypercomputation', and can not be ran on a Turing machine.
- stelonix 4y agoBrains can solve the halting problem, Turing machines cannot.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agono they can't.
- astrange 4y agoIf a brain is a hypercomputer (like a quantum computer), then you could simulate it on a classical computer; you'd just never be able to do it in constant time, so it could never be fast enough to catch up with reality. Also, you wouldn't be able to simulate a specific existing brain due to the quantum no-cloning theorem.