1/ I want to very briefly address this article that came out today by @matthewcobb in the Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/27/why-your-brain-is-not-a-computer-neuroscience-neural-networks-consciousness …
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Do we know enough about how the Brain works to know it's a computer? Or, do we simply have no other model for the transformation of information? What about subjective perception ?
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A computer is a system that can implement the whole of constructive mathematics, within its resource constraints. Cells and brains are in this category. Subjective perception takes place in a virtual world, generated by the computer. It's a simulated property, not a physical one.
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"Subjective perception takes place in a virtual world, generated by the computer. " Is that really a meaningful distinction, if reductionism and materialism is true?
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Here is a presentation on that topichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3K5UxWRRuY …
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