2023-09-20 08:55 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
... computation. What you can't see (from within your computational small-world worldview) is that this is by far not all that brains do, nor did brains evolve to do this (most animal brains don't engage in this kind of activity at all, in fact).
The logic error: for the brain to be literally a computer, it would have to do nothing but compute (in the Turing sense). As I said above, you simply assume that this is the case, bcs you assume that the whole world is computable ...
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-20 08:57
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org The problem is that this assumption is not supported by any evidence. There are tons of processes and problems in the actual (large) world that cannot be formalized in the sense of Hilbert. One, for example, is how organisms realize what is relevant in their environment: how they pick out the features of the world that are important for their given situation. If you try to formalize that, you get an infinite regress. Same thing with organismic organization, as Rosen ...