Computers not bound to Landauer's Principle

In the cited paper David Wolpert argues that human brains and computers are fundamentally different. Computer memories are not bound to Landauer's Principle but human memories are. Wolpert's version of the argument renders the computer/brain analogy both invalid and superfluous.

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