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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com

My answer, as a long-standing Hofstadter/Dennett fanboy: "It's not, but computers turn out to be great at emulating chaotic physical systems (weather) to a degree of accuracy which is limited by data, not abstract computation models." So I expect that brains fall into the same category.

aug 20, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com

It need not be said that Google/Facebook/OpenAI are not trying to do anything like that and only their marketing departments are trying to pretend they're succeeding.

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