@beneuroscience@neuromatch.social @debivort@drosophila.social @yoginho@spore.social @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org @NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social This conversation is genuinely confusing to me. @yoginho seems to be saying that "computation" means anything that can be mechanized, reduced to an algorithm or program, and the brain is not limited to that. @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org seems to be saying that a computation is anything that a physical system can instantiate, and so a brain, being physical, does computations. I"m confused as to whether there is genuine disagreement here, or just different definitions of computation. @yoginho@spore.social can you explain what are, or give examples of, things a physical system (a brain) can do that are not computations by your definition? @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org, are you stating that the brain, or indeed any physical system, cannot do anything that is not computable, reducible to a rote computation, an algorithm or program? Again, what I'm trying to understand is: are you using the same definition of computation, or different definitions of computation? Are you disagreeing about what physical systems, including the brain, can do, or only about what to call it?