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I’m not sure where you’re going with this.

To wit, no one expects human brains to be capable of arbitrarily complex computation.

What I'm getting at is that you won't achieve anything by simulating a human brain. Which doesn't mean nobody will try, the World's Richest Man seems determined to send humans to Mars, which is equally futile, but just that it is definitely futile and here's why we know that.

you won't achieve anything by simulating a human brain

This does not follow from any theorem of Gödel.

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