Well, we disagree but it's not one we can solve or discuss over Twitter.
Yes, obviously the brain on some levels of analysis does more. That's like saying that the brain does more than just the electrons etc that
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it is composed of.
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On what lvl of analysis does it do _more_ than compute? People that take Gandy's CT-thesis (https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/falsifiability-and-gandys-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ … ) argue that impossible.
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Oh, I mean more than a pen on a table.
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And obviously brains do not have infinite tape etc etc
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I'm confused what your angle is?
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I don't have angle: was trying to clarify/extract what you meant by computation. Interested in intuitions of someone that knows brains & CS.
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You could have asked. I think computation is literally something the brain does. That is why I think it's pointless to argue if the brain is
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a computer because I do not think such questions make sense. A computer is an abstract system that can compute. And a brain is a specific
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instance. Anything the brain does is a computation. I am into broad definitions.
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