Ep 96: Computational Universality: Yaron Brook vs Sam Harris response
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The Mind Body Problem and the Relevance of Computing
The scientific idea is that the brain is made of matter it is literally hardware and the mind is software a kind of program running on the brain. In terms of galaxy collisions on a computer yes they are run every day on many computers around the world they are possible to do now we should just pause here by the way and i'll come back to this that's simulating two galaxies colliding in a computer and two galaxies out there in the universe actually colliding in space are two very different things. We might also consider the case of what might be called a recursive computer game or a game within a game people might be familiar with Minecraft which is an online game where people can build things
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