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> Basic information theory tells us that any noisy continuous system is equivalent to a discrete system of a certain resolution/bit-depth.

Technically you are right - but practically you are wrong. Like 'technically' any logical or even emotional reasoning can be modeled with if-else-structures (maybe add some randomness). But why aren't we able yet to actually create human-like reasoning? Because that approach is 'practically' not useful. That's why the most powerful ML solutions aren't realized with Prolog, but with neural networks at the moment.

> A few bits are sufficient to describe the output of a real-world neuron.

Possibly. But no computer is so far able to even remotely simulate or emulate what is actually going on within a real-world neuron. And that is required to fundamentally understand the output.

> except for a (potentially) reduced energy consumption

And that is quite a big deal. Because the effect of reduced energy in a parallelized system is going to be exponentially relevant!

> But on a theoretical level, nothing changes.

But on a practical level everything will change.




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