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But I'm not aware of neurology having identified anything remotely resembling multiple cores or hyperthreading in the human or animal brain.

Um, you do realize that the human brain has ten to a hundred billion neurons that all run in parallel, right?



You mean like all the transistors in a single-core processor run in parallel?


Transistors are much less complex than neurons; it takes multiple transistors even to implement a single logic gate, and the input-output function for a single neuron is much more complex than a single logic gate. (Some neuroscientists might say that processor cores are less complex than neurons, though I'm not sure I would go that far. I would only say that it would take a small number of neurons--much smaller than the number in the brain--to be equivalent to a processor core.)




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