Scott Aaronson made a comic with Zach Weinersmith that explains quantum computing in an entertaining way:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

Once the map between entanglement and exponential parallelism is clear, quantum computing becomes a breeze /s. Seriously though, entanglement is the root of what makes quantum computing useful.

One subset of problems that are solved exponentially faster are those that intersect with tensor products. Entanglement essentially "is" a tensor product of the probabilistic state space of two qubits.

There is evidence of logic gate analogues in biological neural networks, so this might be an analogy or even a straight statement of a fact!