If I was to try and steelman your position, it is simply that we can not be sure how efficiently the brain utilizes the potential of its supposed synaptic computational power.
I was actually referring to the flexibility and re-arrangability at design time here. Verilog and Cadence can make more flexible use of logic gates and transistors than the brain can make of neurons during a lifetime, and the design space available to circuit designers using these tools is much wider than the one available to evolution.
I was actually referring to the flexibility and re-arrangability at design time here. Verilog and Cadence can make more flexible use of logic gates and transistors than the brain can make of neurons during a lifetime, and the design space available to circuit designers using these tools is much wider than the one available to evolution.