Is the Brain a Computer?

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Dennis HackethalOP·#215

Anything that processes information is a computer.

The brain processes information.

Therefore, the brain is a computer.

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Knut Sondre Sæbø, revised by Dennis HackethalOP·#1498
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I think you run into circular dependence if you exhaustively try to account for brain function by information processing. Even Claude Shannon’s definition of information depends on 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) The Three-Body Problem. This computation depends on a mind defining states and logical relations.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#1501

An example I have previously given is the flickering flags computation in the tv show (books) The Three-Body Problem.

Where?

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