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it may be more accurate to say "parts of the brain of an average human may be computable". Ofcourse I have no data to prove either way. There are incredible human beings who lived in the past and living in the present, who brain is faster than the fastest computers put together. But simulating super humans like ramanujan, is it even possible?

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Ramanujan isn't different than you or I in that regard. His brain was an assembly of neurons, connected via synapses. There's nothing pointing towards the fact that this assembly is any different from any machine, regardless of achievements in the field of mathematics. Because we fail to understand it fully yet doesn't mean it transcends physics, that would be absurd.

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