> The complete function may or may not be pen and paper-able.

Would you mind expanding on this? At a base read, it seems you implying magic exists.

It could well be the case that the brain can be simulated, but presently we don't know exactly what variables/components must be simulated. Does ongoing neuroplasticity for example need to be a component of simulation? Is there some as of yet unknown causal mechanisms or interactions that may be essential?

	▲	Tadpole9181 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		None of those examples cannot be done on pen and paper or otherwise simulated with a different medium, though. AFAICT, your comment above would need some mechanism that is physically impossible and incalculable to make the argument, and then somehow have that happen in a human brain despite being physically impossible and incalculable.