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Re:The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer by brudgers on Sunday May 29, 2011 @11:52PM (#2598424)
algorithmic != computational

The recipe for boiled eggs is an example of a non-computational algorithm.

Re:The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer by davepeck on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:28PM (#2609195)
I'm not quite sure what point you're making, but I should clarify mine. I wasn't trying to say anything deep. I was just making a _very_ surface observation that, at some level, our brains consume, transform, and produce bits. It's almost tautological.

I abused "algorithmic" but not in the way you suggest: there are some well-defined transformations of bits that no algorithm [in the technical sense] can perform. I'll go a step further and suggest that our brains can't perform those transformations, either.