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qarlyesterday at 7:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

> But would that be the limits of its capabilities? It's far from certain.

Do you agree that humans are physical systems?

My understanding is that any physical system can be evaluated to any degree of accuracy by a computer, no?


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rsrsrs86today at 3:54 AM

No

streetfighter64yesterday at 7:59 PM

> any physical system can be evaluated to any degree of accuracy by a computer

That's an interesting hypothesis, but I don't know why you'd assume it to be true at face value. It's a bit unclear how you would even define "evaluated", given that we don't yet have a mathematical model of all of physics as we know it. [0] And then consider unknown unknowns.

> Do you agree that humans are physical systems?

Do you consider humans _with infinite memory_ as physical systems? Do you consider computers _with infinite memory_ as physical systems?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Mo...

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