[ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sun, 2/21/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> But the computation may, for example, predict how far the
> nail will be driven into the wood, which is a replication of a property
> of the real event. 

"Predicting an event" != "replication of a property".

I consider computations of natural processes including brain processes as a-causal; that is, the computations describe and predict natural processes but they do not determine them. 

In general, nature "follows" no supposed laws or algorithms. She just does what she does, and humans talk about it with computations and so-called laws of physics.

-gts