Agree 100%
The model may be interesting and advance a theoretical approach - a real plus.
However, key assumptions are faulty. Evidence suggests that memory is rewritten with current associative context when accessed. Our awareness fills in plausible details and assumes the memory is complete and accurate (analogous to not noticing your macular scotoma in the eye). Memory storage is actually quite lossy and more tuned to keep our internal dialog consistent than anything else.
Further, noncomputable will not rule out heuristics that closely approximate its behavior or even internal experience. The real brain seems more heuristic and pattern matching than computation in its origin.
That's all...
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Agree 100% The model may be interesting and advance a theoretical approach - a real plus. However, key assumptions are faulty. Evidence suggests that memory is rewritten with current associative context when accessed. Our awareness fills in plausible details and assumes the memory is complete and accurate (analogous to not noticing your macular scotoma in the eye). Memory storage is actually quite lossy and more tuned to keep our internal dialog consistent than anything else. Further, noncomputable will not rule out heuristics that closely approximate its behavior or even internal experience. The real brain seems more heuristic and pattern matching than computation in its origin. That's all...