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(Ep 117: Heat, Work, Universality and Exams)

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We're Computers of a Kind, Special

It takes a special kind of mysticism to assume that brains, our brains, wetware, or even human brains in particular, are made of a matter that cannot be done elsewhere. That's justa asertion. And it's at odds, once again, with computational universality which says that whatever can be output by that system doing information processing over there, can be done elsewhere by some other system, in principle. A brain is a physical system. If you reject this, then you reject naturalism. You're in a world of mysticism and pseudo science. We don't have to say we violate known laws of physics in order to be special.

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