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If the Universe is computable, then human thinking is computable. All due respect to Penrose for his stellar achievements, but frankly the implications of Turing Complete, the halting problem, Church/Turing hypothesis and the point of Godel's Theorem seem to be things he does not fully understand.

I know this sounds cheeky but we all have brains that are good at some things and have failure modes as well. We are certainly seeing shadows of Human-type fallability in neural nets, which somehow seem to have a lot of similarities to human thinking.

Brains evolved in the physical world to solve problems and help organisms survive, thrive, and reproduce. Evolution is the product of a massive search over potential physical arrangements. I see no reason why the systems we develop would operate on drastically different premises.



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