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In which sense are brains similar to the devices we currently call computers, and in which sense not? What’s the difference between what they can do? What's the status of current technology. And is Roger Penrose right in saying that Gödel’s theorem tells us human thought can’t just be computation? At the end of this video you will know the answers.

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00:00 Intro
00:58 What's a computer?
02:36 Physical differences between brains and computers
06:48 Differences in how they work
15:54 Differences between what they can do
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