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Hmm... a number of people are looking at it, but very few have anything to say about it.
Of course, raw computing power is only one measure, and the reason a machine with as much power as a supercomputer can't land on its feet if dropped upside-down, or beat John McEnroe at tennis.
Scientists have yet to develop a way to quantify the "power" of the nervous system. They have discovered that parts of the nervous system are capable of providing feedback and guidance to local muscles without sending a signal all the way to the brain, allowing for faster reflexes and more accurate muscle movements. Part of this ties to memory, all of it adds to processing, and it means that the human organism's brain is a lot more than just the organ in the skull... the entire nervous system is an integral part of the memory and processing system of the brain, and the two should not be divorced and quantified separately.
How would that change the proportions noted above? No one can say. But if we are measuring more than raw computing power, those proportions will be radically different.
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