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There is a whole genre of essays like this talking about behaviour in a human specific way. But, I wish they engaged with the notions of the Church-Turing thesis and the Universal Turing Machine which indicates that any behaviour following standard physics principles is in fact computable.

(FWIW, I dont think that humans can be reduced to computing, but the Church-Turing thesis is a powerful counterargument which more biologists and psychologists should engage with).



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