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Whats the clock speed/flops per second of our brains?

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retiredfeline:
10 flops per project.  :-DD

helius:
Somewhere around 10 Hz to globally synchronize. Submodules can tune in to finer divisions of time, for instance in playing or listening to music.

In terms of "FLOPS" (floating point operations per second) perhaps 0.0001, with external storage? Testing is easy, just multiply two 20-digit decimal fractions in your head :)
Rare individuals called "calculating savants" can do much faster, of course.

emece67:
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ebastler:

--- Quote from: Beamin on February 06, 2021, 01:48:29 am ---If our brains were computers what would the clock speed be? How many flops per second could it produce, and how much ram/cache and drive space would it need figuring 30-40 years old?

What would be the difference in some one with an IQ of 80 and 140(conveniently my average IQ) or some one with 170 like Einstein?

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Reads like a thinly veiled "Let me brag about my claimed IQ" post...  ::)
I will resist debating the merits of the claim.

Syntax Error:
First, do your head in reading about the brain's transistor, the neuron. Then decide if the FLOP is a valid analogy?

http://www.tulane.edu/~h0Ward/BrLg/Neuron.html

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--- Quote ---Keyes (1985) raises the question of what makes a good computational device, and answers with three desiderata. A “good” computational system is one that survives in the real world, for which it (i) must operate at high speeds, in order to anticipate and react to a fast-changing environment, (ii) must have a rich repertoire of computational primitives, in order to have a wide range of responses, and (iii) must interface with the physical world, in order to represent sensory input accurately and decide on appropriate motor output.
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