Re: Can anyone explain this quote?

"Craig Feinstein" <cafeinst@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> : "If the human brain were so simple
>> : That we could understand it,
>> : We would be so simple
>> : That we couldn't."
>> : Emerson M. Pugh

>Does anyone believe the quote?

Of course not, unless one equates "understand" with "simulate within".

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