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> is there anything that cannot be ran in algorithms? The way I see it the only thing stopping me from simulating every atom in a brain is computational power.

I am not for sure I understand the specifics of what you mean by "is there anything that cannot be ran in algorithms?", but there are plenty of things that are not computable or decidable in computation. These are theoretical constraints. There are also practical constraints that effectively increase the list of these things.




Sorry, my sentence was poorly formulated, and your counterpoint is attractive. Let me try it again:

Is there any portion of reality that cannot have the evolution of its set of magnitudes replicated in a Turing Machine?

> there are plenty of things that are not computable

I clicked on the article expecting to see something like a mapping between aspects of human intelligence and undecidability or the halting problem.




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