ElI5: Our brain uses about 10W of power, when a computer can use 100W. With our brain doing significantly more than a computer, how is it so much more efficient?

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ElI5: Our brain uses about 10W of power, when a computer can use 100W. With our brain doing significantly more than a computer, how is it so much more efficient?

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Your brain is nothing like a computer, architecture-wise. Computers use programs that are millions of simple instructions from a set of a couple hundred instructions. The brain is parallel, executing a few hundred instructions from a set of zillions of complex instructions you call “thoughts”.

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