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aidenn0yesterday at 2:44 PM0 repliesview on HN

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.