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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Replying to @o_guest @kaznatcheev and
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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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
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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Replying to @kaznatcheev @o_guest and
Is Windows 95 running in a web browser still Windows 95? The physical effects on the processor's atoms do not directly correspond after all.
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
All the information one can get from some particular experiment on magnets can be gotten just as well via a quantum computer simulation
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
The information is more important than the atoms.
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Replying to @botminds @kaznatcheev and
The principle of multiple realisability is glorious.
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don't tell me everyone is working now. time for a new twitter bomb:P: the earth is round (p<.05). let's not get anything done today *muharha
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I was trying to but now I'm going to dinner. To be fair I did more than I thought I would given how much bile came out of me this morning. 
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Replying to @o_guest @maria_ndrnh and
Literal bile. Not my usual verbiage type bile.
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