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 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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How broad is broad? Is anything a physical process does a computation (just many of them, like the pen on table, being boring computations)?
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Seriously, these terms have meanings: Information processing, computation, and cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22210958
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Many and diff meanings though — cogsci tend to disagree with one another all the time. That is also what the article you linked to says.
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