[FRIAM] computational limits — supersized mind

[Marcus Daniels]

There are already electrostatic interactions in organic chemistry that could
trigger conformational changes or polarization changes that operate on
femtosecond or picosecond timescales.   The photons would soon be absorbed
anyway, so it isn't like it is a mechanism for distributed computation like
carefully controlled entanglement of a quantum computer.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2025 9:37 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] computational limits - supersized mind

oft accepted limit of the human brain computational limit - 10^16th
computations per second.

Interesting article challenging that limit, and a lot more.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077836

davew

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