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  Knut Sondre Sæbø criticized idea #215.

Anything that processes information is a computer.

The brain processes information.

Therefore, the brain is a computer.

#215 · Dennis Hackethal, 8 months ago

I think you run into circular dependence if you exhaustively try to account for brain function by information processing. Even Claud Shannon’s definition of information is dependent upon a «mind/perspective» defining a range of possible states. The world devoid of any perspective would have infinite states and systems depending on how you «view the world». An example I have previously given is the flickering flags computation in the tv show (books) Three body problem. This computation is dependent on a mind defining states and logical relations.

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