“Computers are not word processors.” It is true that a computer and a word processor exist at different conceptual levels, but a computer can become a word processor if it is running word processing software and not otherwise. Similarly, a computer can become a brain if it is running brain software. That is what researchers including myself are attempting to do. The question, then, is whether or not we can find an algorithm that would turn a computer into an entity that is equivalent to a human brain. A computer, after all, can run any algorithm that we might define because of its innate
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