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Also, a brain evolved to be a stable compute platform in body that finds itself in many different temperature and energy regimes. And the brain can withstand and recover from some pretty severe damage. So I'd suspect an intelligence that is designed to run in a tighter temp/power envelope with no need for recovery or redundancy could be significantly more efficient than our brain.


The brain only operates in a very narrow temperature range too. 5 degrees C in either direction from 37 and you're in deep trouble.


Most brain damage would not be considered in the realm of what most people would consider "recoverable".


In some cases it doesn't recover even without physical or chemical damage. Psychiatric clinics are full of this stories.




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