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I think it's even more interesting that the required amount of energy to do that high computational work isn't that high. Evolution has been working on it for a long time, and some things are really inefficient but overall it does an OK job at making squishy machines.

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The human brain uses roughly 20 watts, which is really a remarkably low number.

https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/12386

That's 20% of total energy consumption.

I had a good chuckle at "squishy machines". That's a really interesting way to think about it. It makes me wonder if, some day, we will be able to build "squishy machines" of our own, capable of outperforming silicon while using a tiny fraction of the energy.

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