polonius-rex

holy shit those ufc fighters are gigantic

skill issue

word is fine if you know how to use it

none of its direct competitors have the same feature set, and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm

a finite number of states a brain can be in

there are infinite ways to arrange and configure finite neurons

computability of mental processes

are mental processes entirely computable though? you kind of run into a halting-problem-style issue because if you can compute your response to anything that should imply that you can never make a decision that surprises the computation. but if you feed knowledge of the computation's result into your decision making process you can just pick the opposite

don't most people have dynamic ips?

so at the very least, the lower bound is the natural numbers, or a countably infinite number

but an infinite number of ways you could spend those resources

yeah, but the relative positions and relative lengths and relative widths and relative densities and relative conductivities of those neurons are real numbers

A single human brain is finite, but the possible configurations of neurons across any possible hypothetical brain is decidedly infinite.

but you could birth a new person who didn't fit that finite number

there will always be a hypothetical new person who could exist

unfortunately in practice knowing this distinction is essentially pointless

the point isn't to prove that the triangle is a triangle it's to prove that the system of mathematics you made up actually works

the Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major is deafening