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A) claiming the brain "is not a formal logic system" either makes the brain weaker, or says that the Church-Turing hypothesis isn't true. It takes a bit more than hand-waiving to make that claim.

B1) C. Elegans has evolved to understand its environment.

B2) We don't understand our environment.




I'm not sure what your point is with B1+B2.

Sure, we don't understand (can't predict) everything about our environment, but the level of complexity we can understand - Saturn V rocket for example - is pretty astounding. If you look at the brain as a bunch of interacting subsystems, then the level of complexity really doesn't appear that great. I think historically people have overestimated the theoretical complexity of the brain for a variety of reasons.




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