Comment by blackhole

The part of the article that bothers me here the most is a leading nueroscientist asserting that the brain is not computable. That is demonstrably false: The brain is a quantum system, just like everything else in the universe. All quantum systems containing n qubits can be simulated by 2^n classical bits. It may very well be impractical to compute a decent sized brain, but that's still technically computable, which is a serious problem in his whole "you can't reduce human nature to a computer algorithm" tirade. Yes, you can. It will be impossibly huge and slow, but you can.