Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

> Live with that. ;)

Well, sure, it's a computer of sorts, although in the abstract sense of being able to perform computations so is our liver, so perhaps not a very useful concept.

What I meant (as I assume you realize) was "not a von Neumann architecture computer", but I'd also fairly confidently assert that it's not a quantum computer either.

Our ANN model of a neuron is obviously too simple (especially being a synchronous model, not a real-time asynchronous one), but it's hard to imagine that all of the classical chemistry, let alone quantum, details are important. It's necessarily built out of chemistry, but selection is happening at the level of behavior - presumably depending only on a much higher level set of abstract capabilities (ability to learn, etc), not the exact details of chemistry.

The success of LLMs, a crude prediction mechanism built atop a crude ANN, does tend to support the idea that low level details don't matter. Timing will matter if we want to go beyond LLMs to AI that can learn time-based things and not just sequence order, but how much else will matter remains to be seen!