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The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' betwee...
They both have input and output and obey the laws of material nature. They take in information, make decisions, and then take action.
Or is the brain not mathematical?
mallowfram
5 days ago
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Brains are none of those things. Thoughts aren't about things, there's no content to thoughts, and what it expresses, it behaves nothing the way computers do.
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
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pixl97
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Ah, psychologists contriving arguments on why the brain isn't some particular thing or another. Or, that "phycologist learns about fuzzy edge/component compression"
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Or is the brain not mathematical?