Researchers have been attempting to simulate the workings of a mouse mind using supercomputers. So far, copying the actions of all the neurons, they can run a rough simulation that works 6X more slowly than an actual mouse mind.

A human mind is 3000 times the size of a mouse mind.

So basically, computers have a ways to go before they reach the power of the human mind.

Okay. You, my reader, have a mind that has more computing power than the fastest supercomputers times a few thousand. Now memorize the following two numbers, look away from the screen, and add them in your head.

231341

677618

My calculator, not even close to being anywhere near a supercomputer, can do that in a microsecond. Perfectly.

So how is that our supercomputer brains struggle with this operation?

I understand that math is not something we evolved to do, but you would think that with the kind of computing power we have, we would be able to accomplish a simple task like this much more easily.