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>The transistor-pulse based computer system will have to be scrapped or re-tooled to model synapses properly.
You don't seem to understand what it means for a computer to be equivalent to a Turing machine. The "transistor-pulse based computer" has absolutely nothing to do with anything. IT DOESN'T MATTER that it uses transistors. IT DOESN'T MATTER how it computes things. It can compute anything a Turing machine can compute, and a Turing machine can compute a physical simulation of the universe. End of story.
Synapses are not pulses that can only mean a 1 or a 0, the vary in intensity and can last for a few seconds or for just a split second and can remain at low level intensities for a long period of time.
So? I don't understand how this is relevant. Of course a computer can model these things you're talking about.
The maths will undoubtedly involve chaos theory in place of certain 1s and 0s
Total nonsense. I can play too, watch: What's the difference between a bicycle? One of its legs is both the same!
how complex ideas and memories interact to allow a brain to think and analyse, whether these stages are continuous or can be categroised etc.
No, this is what a neural network does on its own. That's the whole point of a neural network. Thought and analysis arise due to the interaction of neurons, so if we can model those, we can build a sentient computer.
Seriously, you're too fucking stupid to be talking about mechanical computation.