Anil Seth claims the brain is too complex to simulate, Brian Greene pushes back on stage
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-10-12
Speaking on stage with David Chalmers, Anil Seth claimed the brain is too complex to simulate by computer — despite elsewhere conceding physical processes are simulable by Turing machines. Host Brian Greene balked at the dodge: 'Isn't that just complexity?' Commenters add that Seth's paper rejects Chalmers' neural replacement argument without addressing its paradoxes.
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