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> “the brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it.” If you assume this is true then the brain is a physical entity which cannot be constructed
by Lerc 14y ago
> “the brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it.”
If you assume this is true then the brain is a physical entity which cannot be constructed by mechanisms that manipulate physical objects.
The question arises "why is a body growing a brain not a feat of engineering? What did the body do that similarly sophisticated machines cannot?"
- s_baby 14y agoI believe the argument is consciousness is not a causal product of relations represented in the brains structures but a property of the substrate. Consider that a brain model on a turing machine is equivalent to a sticks and stones model running the same program. Do you believe some person moving a bunch of sticks and stones around can produce conscious experience?