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by xzephyr 3934 days ago
Brains don't do FLOPS. It is a completely different type of "calculation". Computational benchmarks are only directly comparable when the representations of input and output are the same.
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That's very true, but in some ways it's even more remarkable: there exists an alternative form of calculation/computation that is "magical" in certain domains when compared to all the standard CS we know, and we don't have a clue what it is.

It's not an apple/apple comparison. It's an apple/unicorn comparison.

I don't know, if counted every modulation in every wire in a computer (CPU, RAM, cache activations, etc), you might get a signifant multiple of its FLOPS count, right?