How interesting. You have given me quite a lot to think about it. I am still unable to get past the following, but I will continue to consider everything you have said in our discussion very carefully.

Issue: I carried out theoretical physics energy calculations on the work done by cells as a result of cell self-replication in the human nervous system (recall the nervous system primarily functions to send signals at ~the speed of light from one part of the body to another)

The thing I am unable to get past for arguments of the type you made, e.g. when you stated:

> "There are fewer than 10 billion people in the world. That's a finite number. Even a quadratic problem remains quadratic if there is a bounded number of compute resources"

The issue is: the human body does not completely fall apart, it all works fine and there are no issues like this, there is some kind of bound from being a physical object in the real world, but physically and quite practically for all purposes the human nervous system is capable of expending an exponential amount of energy

Question: Since the human body does not fall apart despite the fact that its doing cell self-replication, given how theoretical physics shows there truly is an exponential level of energy expended during cell-replication, how are these types of issues that you raise, quite legitimately from a pure-math/theoretical comp-sci perspective, not also a major issue for the human nervous system?

Thanks again! This discussion has been enlightening