computation
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But dismissing these behaviors as “mere” computation assumes we know what consciousness requires.
If we want a serious account of how brains compute, and what it would take to build minds in other substrates, we first need a broader definition of what "computation" can be.
From Science Daily
For years, chipmakers pushed back against the memory wall by shrinking transistors, the tiny switches that handle computations and store data, and packing more of them onto each chip.
From Science Daily
Those numbers could have been used in a statistical computation, but they weren’t by themselves a statistical argument.
Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum mechanics to process information in ways classical computation cannot.
From Barron's
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