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Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by dntbnmpls on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:27PM (#22724065)
> 100T of synapses (or sizeable share of it) at that frequency puts us into hundreds tera-ops/second of calculation power

Considering the top supercomputers can do petaflops, in terms of pure computation, humans are now permanently surpassed. And in a generation or so, our smartphones will be able to do petaflops.

It makes you wonder, if computers can now process faster, store more data, have greater bandwith, etc, why is it still "behind" the human brain? Perhaps we are missing some aspect of the human brain that makes it special?

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Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by arcticbull on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:42PM (#22724170)
> Perhaps we are missing some aspect of the human brain that makes it special?

It's an analog computer not a digital one. The computational power of a 100T transistor analog computer would be truly staggering -- orders of magnitude more powerful than a 100T transistor digital computer.

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Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by p1esk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:39PM (#22724456)
Perhaps we are missing some aspect of the human brain that makes it special?

Yes. The software.

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