Yeah I agree with you. I think her argument was in the spirit that using principles of silicon computers can be misleading
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ah fair enough
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to further contextualize, the full quote started "a bird is not an airplane, brain is not a computer..." but twitter char limits...
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well yes and no. So a brain is a computer. It's a computer, because a computer is a formalised maths object. An airplane isn't.
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Alan Turing defined a Turing machine based on the simple computations carried out by computers (women) and then we build digital
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computers based on the mathematical theories of Turing and many others.
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the brain computes ergo it is a computer. It's not a von neuman machine or a digital computer, but it's a computer nonetheless.
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I assume you know this but I'm (re)stating to show why that similie is not to my taste.
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why just?
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what will you pay me more for?

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haha and yet vegetarians also like them
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We Are The Reductionists
are you following Tononi et al work on causality (& consciousness)?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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