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Our brain is however the very definition of small and complicated. It's the most complex known organic object known to humans and for all that any given normal brain handles in a given day, it uses just 0.3 kilowatt hours (kWh) to do it. No computer we have comes close to handling what a brain handles with that power consumption.

ChatGPT by contrast, consumes roughly a gigawatt hour per day serving its users. Yes, to do this it's handling a colossal amount of queries, but that's all it's doing. Your brain handles everything in your body and consciousness, in ways we don't even fully understand, while also letting you think and communicate and reason as a conscious being with self direction.

Moreover, there is evidence that at least part of our brain's functions may be exactly as the other reply here mentions, weird, subatomic and deeply complex in ways that are difficult to get a clear grip on.



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