Comment by rottc0dd

I did try to ask are we not computers. I tried to imply, in the fundamental level there are striking similarities to computation.

> That’s not to say that computers couldn’t do what the brain does, including consciousness and emotions,

Yes. Fundamental building blocks are simple and physical in nature and follow the computational aspect good enough to serve as nice approximations

> but that wouldn’t have any particular relation to how DNA/RNA and protein synthesis works.

Hmm... transistors are not neural networks so? I am sorry, I am a non native speaker and maybe I am not communicating things properly. I am trying to say, the organic or human is different manifestation of order - one is chemical and other is electronic. We have emotions and consciousness, but we can agree we are made of cells that send electric pulses to each other and primitive in nature. And even emotions and beliefs are physical in nature (Capgras syndrome for example).