nout on Nostr: When we design machines, we usually design towards "the best possible capabilities ...
When we design machines, we usually design towards "the best possible capabilities and qualities", while the brain is evolutionary designed as "the easiest solution that barely works".
That's one reason why there are so many orders of magnitude differences. The brain is good at ignoring vast amount of information, cutting through the space of possibilities, etc - it is barely working on the thing that seems the most important.
E.g. brain has the main alertness only on a very narrow field of view. The rest of the field has only basic "is there a tiger jumping on me?" type of alertness.
That's one reason why there are so many orders of magnitude differences. The brain is good at ignoring vast amount of information, cutting through the space of possibilities, etc - it is barely working on the thing that seems the most important.
E.g. brain has the main alertness only on a very narrow field of view. The rest of the field has only basic "is there a tiger jumping on me?" type of alertness.