Fair point, but what I mean is any computational system is in some way simulating what the brain does, because they both compute.
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
then why didn't you like the analogy of a pen on table computing the function "stay here"?...
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... Also, many arguments against brain is computer metaphor argue that brain does MORE (whatever that would mean...) than what TMs do.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @kaznatcheev @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
instance. Anything the brain does is a computation. I am into broad definitions.
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