Not that important, but… in terms of what intuitions people have, the split of the computation into neurons/environment is not a reasonable model of how life works. Simple organisms do a ton of non-neuron-based computations distributed across many cells, and are able to solve pretty complex optimization problems. The neurons/environment split pushes this into the environment , and this means the environment was sort of complex in a way for which people don’t have good ituitions (e.g. instead of mostly thinking about costs of physics simulation, they should include stuff like immunse system simulations).
Not that important, but… in terms of what intuitions people have, the split of the computation into neurons/environment is not a reasonable model of how life works. Simple organisms do a ton of non-neuron-based computations distributed across many cells, and are able to solve pretty complex optimization problems. The neurons/environment split pushes this into the environment , and this means the environment was sort of complex in a way for which people don’t have good ituitions (e.g. instead of mostly thinking about costs of physics simulation, they should include stuff like immunse system simulations).