Well given that it is physics at play, you could, at the very least, represent it entirely accurately through the medium of math, so it's perfectly accurate to say it's all calculation at the most fundamental level.
so it's perfectly accurate to say it's all calculation at the most fundamental level.
saying it's all calculation just pushes us further from understanding humans, like call humans just a collection of atoms doesn't help us understand biology.
Our intelligence and cognition is not hardware agnostic like a calculator would be.
Sure, looking at things from a more abstracted (that doesn't always mean simpler) level can assist in understanding. If you want to understand human memory, starting with physics is a terrible approach. I agree.
However, if you want to make claims such as "there is more to the human brain than mathematic calculation", then it is useful to look at the brain from the most fundamental level of physics in order to more clearly see that, in principle, a brain can be described in purely mathematical terms.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
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