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Why would sodium-ion flow count as thinking, but silicon-based computation wouldn't?
One post questions why sodium-ion flow through protein channels would count as thinking when matrix multiplication on silicon wouldn't.
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A user contrasts matrix multiplication on silicon with sodium ions flowing through protein channels in a lipid bilayer. They ask why the biological process might count as thinking while the silicon-based one does not, and accuse materialists of turning to “animist reasoning” when the substrate is carbon-based.
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