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I'm not sure what is more mainstream - belief that AIs are as capable as humans, or belief that they are not.

Roger Penrose is one of the more authoritative, for lack of other arguments, voices for humans being more capable than AIs. Still not sure if it implies an existence of God, a class of ability higher than Turing machine or something else.

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All it implies is that brains are immensely complicated and have kajillions of connections, which don't work the same as anything branded AI. Consciousness can be an emergent property AND AI capability can be largely oversold at the same time.

> class of ability higher than Turing machine

Yes it does, it would mean that your brain can somehow exploit quantum gravity to turn itself into an oracle machine. How a wet blob significantly hotter than room temperature (in the superconductor definition) is supposed to do that I don't know.

that's a good question, but the electron transport chain and photosynthesis are both postulated/(known?) to exploit quantum effects at room temperature.

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