Flush with Thought [What's Computation?]

Izhikevich's "Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience" book had a great section about how toilets are nonlinear oscillators, and the brain could be modeled as a large coupled system of them dumping water into each others' bowls when they flush pic.twitter.com/f11S8uS5ec

— Luke Sjulson (@lukesjulson) March 15, 2022

I think I once had a new take on the debate. Brains compute. It’s not a metaphor. But we do not currently have any idea what it means to compute and the definition is not open to a priori stipulation. That’s true of a lot of core scientific concepts.https://t.co/lmiw1eHmUi

— Kevin Lande (@buffalosentence) March 15, 2022

And then there's this thread:

Analog computation was once *the* paradigm of computation; it's a legitimate, but different, kind of computation. However, there is more to it than just that it used continuous (as opposed to discrete) variables.
(Details here: https://t.co/I7PLEHbt6K)
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— Dr. Corey J. Maley (@CoreyJMaley) March 15, 2022