The brain doesn't usually perform floating point operations, but when it does, it can only run a handful per minute.
"Measuring" the processing power of the brain in terms of FLOPS strikes me as bizarre. Like measuring the GDP of an ant colony.
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it's almost as asking how many horses are in a car. Brain doesn't do flops but how many would it take to "simulate" a human brain?
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so how close are ants to surpassing the global human GDP?
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I think it only makes sense in terms of things like estimating the cost and feasibility of brute force simulation.
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perhaps we could put a GDP on a beaver colony though by valuing their dams as compared to ours
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so similarly perhaps we can find an abstract representation of processing done in the brain that's "close enough"? Do we have one?
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even using crude FLOPS metric the efficiency of the brain is overwhelming and our efforts miserable. Singularity my ass!
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Can you expand?
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a link? Just curious >.<
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