Posted: Jul 17, 2017 2:48 pm
John Platko wrote:
Non-trivial but doable for a specific binary adder circuit implemented in a specific technology. With computer simulation I can imagine how one can track how the energy slushes around. And I wouldn't have to just imagine, I could actually detail the energy changes in the circuit if I had enough reason to.
'Imagine'? Well sure, I can 'imagine' that computer simulations and neural scanners could, in principle, track how the energy slushes around in a brain working out some basic arithmetic. Actually doing it in either case is going to be bloody difficult but the brain is surely many orders of magnitude more difficult. The question you would have to answer is whether either is actually impossible in principle, rather than 'imaging' it is impossible.