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All of this is a fine thought experiment, but in practice there are physical limitations to digital processors that don’t seem to manifest in our brains (energy use in the ability to think vs running discrete commands)

It’s possible that we haven’t found a way to express your thinking function digitally, which I think is true, but I have a feeling that the complexity of thought requires the analog-ness of our brains.

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If human-like cognition isn't possible on digital computers, it's certainly is on quantum ones. The Deutsch-Church-Turing principle shows that a quantum Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically realizable computational process.

> certainly is on quantum ones

I don’t think that’s a certainty.

In 50% of possible worlds, it’s 100% certain!

Does that math still check out if math works differently in other worlds?

Probably!

In about 50% of the worlds, there’s 100% chance, would you say?

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