> And from my brief experience on this planet I don't believe that premise.
A lot of things that humans believed were true due to their brief experience on this planet ended up being false: earth is the center of the universe, heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, time ticked the same everywhere, species are fixed and unchanging.
So what your brief experience on this planet makes you believe has no bearing on what is correct. It might very well be that our mind can be reduced to a probabilistic and deterministic system. It might also be that our mind is a non-deterministic system that can be modeled in a computer.
What is the distance from the Earth to the center of the universe?
The universe does not have a center but has a beginning in time and the beginning of space.
The distance to that beginning in time is approx 13 billion years. There is no approximation of distance to the beginning because the space is created at that point and continues to be created.
Imagine the Earth being on the surface of a sphere and so asking what is the center of the surface of a sphere? The sphere has a center but on the surface there is no center.
At least this is my understanding of how to approach these kind of questions.