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Is life a form of computation?

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Betteridge's law of headlines in effect.

As I commented elsewhere...

Human brains are not computers. There is no "memory" separate from the "processor". Your hippocampus is not the tape for a Turing machine. Everything about biology is complex, messy and analogue. The complexity is fractal: every neuron in your brain is different from every other one, there's further variation within individual neurons, and likely differential expression at the protein level.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11711151/