re: #112 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

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.

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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.

Ultimately, everything is the simple math of physics. It looks different to us because we’re seeing brain function from several abstraction layers above. But there’s nothing going on that can’t be simulated with math. And you likely don’t need to simulate it at that level.