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Or is it?

Remember, computers are only doing a few very specialized things at once, while the human brain even at idle is doing a myriad different things simultaneously. this article suggests that the most powerful supercomputers are still an order of magnitude or so slower than a human brain.

They figure a brain has about 100 million megabytes of memory capacity.

Interesting stuff.

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