Given huge amounts of time, the brain could literally run windows.
This is literally false. A model of a brain might, some functional copy of brain implemented on a different hardware platform possibly could. An actual human brain, I don’t think so.
all of the code of windows first ran on human brains.
This is also literally false. Consider a trivial loop for (i=0; i<100000; i++) { .. } Human brains can conceptualize it, but they do not run it
Theoretically a brain with some additional memory tools could run windows. In practice, sure an actual human brain would not be able to, obviously—boredom.
I did not mean that every codepath is run—but that’s never true anyway. And yes “all of the code” is far too strong—most of it is just loosely conceptually simulated by the brain alone, and then more direct sample paths are run with the help of a debugger.
Given an appropriately unrolled set of appropriate instructions, how long would it take for a human armed with nothing but paper and pencil to simulate a complete Windows (say, Windows 7) boot process?
This is literally false. A model of a brain might, some functional copy of brain implemented on a different hardware platform possibly could. An actual human brain, I don’t think so.
This is also literally false. Consider a trivial loop for (i=0; i<100000; i++) { .. } Human brains can conceptualize it, but they do not run it
Theoretically a brain with some additional memory tools could run windows. In practice, sure an actual human brain would not be able to, obviously—boredom.
I did not mean that every codepath is run—but that’s never true anyway. And yes “all of the code” is far too strong—most of it is just loosely conceptually simulated by the brain alone, and then more direct sample paths are run with the help of a debugger.
Fermi estimate time! :-)
Given an appropriately unrolled set of appropriate instructions, how long would it take for a human armed with nothing but paper and pencil to simulate a complete Windows (say, Windows 7) boot process?