>Perhaps there are aliens out there who would laugh our cognitive abilities--their's being so much better than ours.
Yeah, but their brains would either be much bigger and/or use a lot more energy, or they will have a fundamentally different architecture (i.e. they are manufactured instead of evolved).
For the given amount of perceptions/calculations that our brain makes, and the hard constraint of being a biological process, we have pretty much fantastically efficient brains.
My computer, extremely slow when compared to the likes of DeepMind, has a power source of 750 watts, while human brains consume in average 12 watts.
Yeah, but their brains would either be much bigger and/or use a lot more energy, or they will have a fundamentally different architecture (i.e. they are manufactured instead of evolved).
For the given amount of perceptions/calculations that our brain makes, and the hard constraint of being a biological process, we have pretty much fantastically efficient brains.
My computer, extremely slow when compared to the likes of DeepMind, has a power source of 750 watts, while human brains consume in average 12 watts.