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Ok there's no conclusive proof yet as no one has been able to do it yet, but as far as I know no one actually debates this anymore. It would be incredibly surprising, to say the least, if the brain turned out to work completely outside the known laws of physics.


We don't know whether physical reactions in our brains allow for and depend on calculation using real numbers, which can only be approximated using our current computing technology.




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