Their communication is much more complex too, and neither they nor their connections are static.
We don't understand how they work at the subatomic level simply because human understanding of the subatomic world is not complete, but even just at the atomic level a single neuron is massively more complex than anything humans have created.
Going up to the molecular level, even that is staggeringly more complex than the incredibly simple abstractions that make up a neural net.
Is what happens in the brain at the molecular, atomic, or subatomic levels relevant or necessary to intelligence and consciousness? We just don't know yet, but we do know all of that is far more complex and very different from the simple abstractions that are used for neural nets and LLMs.
The back of a napkin calculations in this thread don't even begin to do justice to the tremendous amount of "calculation" or "storage" that happens in the human brain.
We don't understand how they work at the subatomic level simply because human understanding of the subatomic world is not complete, but even just at the atomic level a single neuron is massively more complex than anything humans have created.
Going up to the molecular level, even that is staggeringly more complex than the incredibly simple abstractions that make up a neural net.
Is what happens in the brain at the molecular, atomic, or subatomic levels relevant or necessary to intelligence and consciousness? We just don't know yet, but we do know all of that is far more complex and very different from the simple abstractions that are used for neural nets and LLMs.
The back of a napkin calculations in this thread don't even begin to do justice to the tremendous amount of "calculation" or "storage" that happens in the human brain.