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Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by skulk on Sunday June 12, 2022 @08:38PM (#31719695)
> there's no actual evidence that you can create an accurate digital model that is equivalent to an analog and biochemical brain.

There are mountains of evidence in favor of the Standard Model, which is computable. Therefore, there actually _is_ evidence that the human brain can be similarly computed. (Whether our technology can ever come near to this kind of power is where I have doubts). What there _isn't_ evidence for is that there is anything non-computable within the human brain.

Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by Der_Einzige on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:34PM (#31720010)
What about bells theorem, which implies that the universe has inherent non determinism associated with it?

Meaning that computability doesn't matter if there's inherently randomness at the smallest scales

Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by kadoban on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:50AM (#31721681)
You can have computation that requires randomness either in its output or in its processing.