>>116980662>Well, a human brain achieves big thonk (presumably anyways) through having a super high speed interaction between our individual nerve cells, Uh, no. Everything with a nervous system has interactions that operate at about the same speed. We actually have shittier reaction speeds because we've got such a big thonk.
Flies on the other hand, have a very short distance for the "oh shit a swatter" signal to travel, and not much in the way of thinking about it before it connects with "GTFO".
>which are extremely densely packedYep. This one. AND we've got such a large mass of brain matter. Not the biggest through. Elephants have bigger brains, but aren't more capable than us. It's not just the hardware we're packing, it's the software of how those connections are formed.
> However, at least hypothetically, if you got enough ants together, they could compete on even ground with a human being for thinking speed, by sheer volume of processes completed.In pure raw flop-count maybe. But that doesn't matter. Calculators blow the pants off of humans for raw calculations, but are shit at more complex stuff. Ants (and especially the more social versions like leaf-cutters) are actually pretty intelligent as the whole hive is run on a distributed system of each ant doing what needs to be done. They remember paths to food, manage building temperatures, manage grubs, and even actively tend herds and crops.
But distributed computing is more than just filling a building with raspberry pis.
The downside is that even simple quick shit is harder as you have to get a bajillion processors to work well with each other. Inter process communicaiton drags everything down.
The upside is that you can dedicate sections to specific tasks, and you can get some great overall throughput.
>Gog-Agog may have already reached or even exceeded human level intellect/consciousness,Well fucking OBVIOUSLY. She's talking and plotting and shit. Ants don't hold conversations.
