> John VanSickle wrote:
> 
>> I seem to recall reading that operating frequency of the human brain 
>> is on the order of 40Hz.
>>
>> I wonder how long it would take a human brain to render POV-Ray...
> 
> I heard 200 MHz, but even so... I would think the human brain could run 
> POV-Ray quite fast. Sure, low clock speed, but it's *insanely* parallel. 
> :-D
> 

Are you sure about the brain being so parallel?

The problem is the low RAM (short term memory). If you try to think 
about a dozen things at a time, there's lots of swapping and greatly 
reduced performance.

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