re: #99 JC1

There’s nothing magical about our brains. There’s no reason why classical computers can’t simulate intelligence/sentience with the right software and faster hardware. What’s an example of something you or I can do in seconds that would take a computer the age of the universe to accomplish?

Nothing Magic is required. Your brain is not a Von Neumann architecture computer. It doesn’t run mathematical algorithms to do everything. That’s not how neural activity works, and is definitely not how consciousness works.

An example of this is explained at 25:00 to at least 31:30 in this video.

Youtube Video

Penrose has spent a great deal of his career trying to claim that the mind and consciousness would require quantum computers to replicate. I’m not willing to say that’s true, but I am willing to say Von Neumann computers absolutely cannot replicate consciousness and a sentient mind.