> What scientific evidence is there that we are anything other than a biochemical machine? And if we are a biochemical machine, how is that inherently capable of more than a silicon based machine is capable of
Iron and copper are both metals but only one can be hardened into steel
There is no reason why we should assume a silicon machine must have the same capabilities as a carbon machine
Unless you can show - even a single example would do - that we can compute a function that is outside the Turing computable set, then there is a very strong reason that we should assume a silicon machine has the same capabilities as a carbon machine to compute.
Yeah, but bronze also makes great swords… what’s the point here?