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I don't think this question is well defined enough to be meaningful.

You can certainly get closer than asserting that, e.g., a hand calculator is more powerful than a human brain because it can do 7 digit long division almost instantly.

At some point, we'll have computers powerful enough to run a working simulation of a human brain. Shortly before that, there will be a point when computers of that sort are "as powerful as a human brain", though we might not realize it when that happens if the software lags.

So that's an upper bound on charlesju's question.



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