one thing that irks me about the "complexity -> consciousness" argument is that computer people do not have a well defined idea of what "complexity" is, it is a "I know it when I see it" thing. wherea...
no computing appliance, no matter how complicated, can ever gain capabilities beyond those of a turing machine, or by church-turing, the untyped lambda calculus. anything a computer does must arise from some composition of `x`, `\x -> e`, and `x y` (names, abstractions and applications)
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