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Re:Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational by aidenn0 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @10:44AM (#43995608)
I don't believe we are close to a computational understanding of biology. However, there is a difference between not having the understanding and claiming that because we don't understand it, there is definitively some Aristotelian non-computational anima in all life.

If I handed someone who had never seen an artificial neural network, and handed them a PCB with some giant LLM hard-coded into it, I suspect they would struggle to define how it reacts to its inputs, despite the fact that modern silicon designs are extremely regular compared to biological systems.

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