Do you think you could build intelligent life in Minecraft?

I've been thinking about this question a lot lately. For those who don't know Minecraft:

Minecraft is a game in which you can build things with blocks - similar to Lego. There's also something called Redstone, which can either be on or off and is comparable to electrical current. In addition to the redstone, there are a few more blocks that can be used to build logical units, from AND and OR gates to RAM and entire computers, for example.

However, these computers are not nearly as powerful as today's computers.

Now the question: Imagine that you have no restrictions in the game, that is, there are no stutters, you can build infinitely far in any direction (especially up and down), there are no laggs or bugs or other errors. Could you build intelligent life then? You could build an incredibly powerful computer, and in principle our brain is just a computer, or am I wrong? So you could theoretically create a whole brain in Minecraft, you could even build whole bodies with the help of pistons, you could then push the whole thing even further and build the entire universe in Minecraft!

According to our current state of knowledge, the universe is based on physical laws, so that in principle we can build infinitely small, so that every phenomenon could be reproduced with the help of computers, right? Every quant could just be a supercomputer that knows exactly how to behave, so you could easily simulate any physical law!

I know it all sounds a bit crazy, but should it be fundamentally correct? By not giving you any limits, you can easily build an enormously powerful computer that "simply" simulates the entire universe! What do you think? Should I rather smoke less?

How to build a computer in minecraft please

With performance

Read my question carefully

In which (theoretically) no longer has any restrictions, i.e. No building limit, no laggs, no buggs etc

But the performance is limited

If that should be possible, then they themselves have powerful computers that could simulate an AI themselves. Then you don't need Minecraft anymore

We assume that we have unlimited power, so we can build what we want and it would always do what it should theoretically do

But the question is whether it would be possible in Minecraft with the logical units that can be used there

The pc on which minecraft is running is the limit

As I said, we just assume that the PC also has no limit, so we can do it in Minecraft without limit

Then simulate directly on the pc

Yes, but as I said, it is about whether it is possible in Minecraft with the given logical units

With unlimited performance yes

You have all the basic factors in Minecraft. So the only question is whether you can recreate all the circuits that are currently available in computer processors in Minecraft?

As far as I know, Redston circuits in Minecraft are complete, which means that you can theoretically do anything you can do with a computer.

In practice, of course, this does not work, but the performance is far too low, there are bugs, delays, limits in the number of loaded chunks, etc. But let's assume that you had a perfect, infinitely powerful Minecraft server, then you could use any red tone circuit Reconstruct computer program.

Of course, this also means that you could implement any AI that can be programmed today or in the future in Minecraft. You could also run every simulation in Minecraft, be it a replica of all biological and chemical processes taking place in a cell, the simulation of a galaxy collision or similar.

In the end, your question actually boils down to the following: Can you program intelligent life? Nobody can answer that conclusively. To date, no one has programmed conscious, intelligent life, but that doesn't mean that it's not possible. Today's AIs are mostly good at certain tasks for which they are trained, but do not "understand" what they are doing and are therefore not able to react sensibly to changing starting points. AIs aren't actually intelligent in the way people are intelligent.