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Whats the clock speed/flops per second of our brains?
Beamin:
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?
Melt-O-Tronic:
What's the length of a snake's stride?
vad:
An average person can’t perform simple arithmetic operations on arbitrary singe-precious floating point numbers in memory. So I would say 0 FLOPS in memory, ~0.02 FLOPS with paper and pencil, ~0.2 FLOPS with scientific calculator, and up-to 1 exaFLOPS with modern computer.
DrG:
--- 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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I'm afraid that my answer is going to disappoint, but here goes:
When this kind of question is asked, it usually gets answered in terms of neural conduction. IOW how long does it take for a neuron to fire...the time from being activated to the time to activate the next neuron or muscle or whatever. It depends on a lot of factors, but you can look these up on Wikiwonderful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_conduction_velocity
Even the fastest ones are very slow compared to the kinds of standards and measures you are bringing up.
I have never read any evidence at all that a healthy person with a lower IQ has slower neurons than one with higher IQ - it just doesn't work that way.
But, that should not bother you at all because the fastest computers were designed and built and programmed by human brains :)
JohnnyMalaria:
How many MFLOPS must a computer achieve before it can simply just know instinctively it exists?
And why denigrate the extraordinary reality that is your consciousness by comparing it to a how fast a bunch of NAND gates can respond to electrical impulses?
Tat tvam asi.
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