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you're making a straw man argument and being an asshole about it to boot. neurons aren't binary. who knows if they're special in a way digital computers can't
by dingnuts 2y ago
you're making a straw man argument and being an asshole about it to boot.
neurons aren't binary. who knows if they're special in a way digital computers can't simulate -- they aren't well understood.
nobody said anything about determinism besides you
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago" digital computers either". Most of the time someone brings up the word 'Digital' they are talking about 1's and 0's, and how everything is known and determined, and thus looses the ineffable human quality. "they're special in a way digital computers can't simulate" I might be making a straw man, but you are literally just saying "something magical that exists outside physics must be going on"
- nipah 2y agoThis is a strawman, but it also could be the case of it being something supernatural. You don't have the skill to enter in a serious discussion about that either, so calling it "magic" is the unique thing will help you here (as people are usually scared of things they can't explain). But it would be the case that the universe is non-computable, and if this is the case, even without "magic", you would not be able to reproduce certain kinds of things (even not conscious ones) with a computer.