Although it will eventually become possible to digitally emulate the workings of the brain, this is not the same as pre-computing it in a deterministic sense. This is because brains (whether biological or not) are not closed systems. Brains take in input from the outside world and then manipulate it via astoundingly complex networks—in fact, scientists have recently identified networks in the brain that exist in up to eleven dimensions![30] This complexity likely makes use of rule 110–style phenomena for which there is no way to computationally “peek ahead” without simulating each step in
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