You may have already realized that our minds are Turing-Complete, in the sense that given a pen and paper tape we can simulate a Turing Machine.
However, Turing-Completeness also emerges in nature else-where.
Implications of the Turing completeness of reaction-diffusion models, informed by GPGPU simulations on an XBox 360: Cardiac arrhythmias, re-entry and the Halting problem
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The human mind, and everything that comprises it from our emotions, reactions, ability to learn and make predictions, etc. is the OS. Or in other words, there's no OS, there is no independent kernel that everything else in the brain is layered upon. Every region in the brain depends in someway on every other region in the brain in some way. Lose one region, and you lose consciousness or become less conscious as with those suffering from brain damage.
Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness models this aspect in a formal way.
>>3 Lose one region, and you lose consciousness or become less conscious as with those suffering from brain damage.
Someone hasn't learned of neuroplasticity. What can be said though is that if you were to lose a particular region, for example the one handling some particular kind of input, you would no longer be capable of having that particular experience.
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Also, this gives me an idea,
An OS made of FPGA elements working as network of apps, without central controlling kernel or thread(communicated as dataflow among circuits, similar to objects in The Conway's Game of Life).