Consciousness at 10^15-10^16 Ops/Sec? X Users Clash Over Brain Complexity
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-10-06
An X debate on consciousness and computation: VictorLevoso argues the brain does at most 10^21 ops/s (likely 10^15-10^16), and since consciousness operates on sub-second timescales, it can't involve orders of magnitude more functional complexity than its active computation. JoshPurtell pushes back, and raises whether MoE LLMs are more complex than dense models with the same active params.
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