[lonelappde]

Illogical. 40watt computers can also do things that destroy what human brains can do. I can load up a raspberry pi with logic to control robots and apply computer vision models and do some pattern learning. And the power of software is still rapidly improving. And computers can run on much lower power too, and likely even lower in future. There is no particular reason to believe that quantum is what makes brains work, as known quantum computers are super energy inefficient, and quantum effects are not observed in high temperature matter (not counting quantum effects of photons) like humans. How could you think our algorithms are not primitive and wrong? They've been improving at exponential rate since almost forever, with no hints that they've reached optimality beyond tiny pockets.

[api]

I think you're ludicrously underestimating what brains and biological neural systems in general can do.