Mathematicians clash: do self-maintaining biological neurons make AI fundamentally different?
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-10-21
Sparked by mathematician Timothy Gowers' claim that "brains are just a series of tiny neuron firings" and will never be conscious, Valerio Capraro counters that this is "the fundamental AI lie": biological neurons also perform autopoiesis—maintaining themselves alive—a property absent in artificial neurons, which aren't even physical entities.
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