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The speaker says sufficiently fast hardware can simulate any natural system to any desired degree of fidelity, while a brain cannot simulate a digital computer because the brain is too imprecise or “mushy.”
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“But if you have a hardware that is fast enough, you can simulate an arbitrary natural system to an arbitrary degree of fidelity, whereas your brain cannot simulate a digital computer simply because it's very mushy.”44:34Report a misattribution
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