What is "brainpower"

Usage examples of "brainpower".

Human cogitation provides about 1028 MIPS of the solar system's brainpower.

She's by no means the first upload or partial, but she's the first gust front of the storm of power that will arrive when the arrogant ones achieve their goal of dismantling the planets and turning dumb and uninhabited mass into brainpower throughout the observable reaches of the universe.

Being late has punitive consequences – the Ring Imperium has always been a net importer of brainpower and a net exporter of gravitational potential energy.

By the time it does, it will have as much brainpower as you'd get if you placed a planet with a population of six billion future-shocked primates in orbit around every star in the Milky Way galaxy.

But we must bear in mind that there are, in effect, two different kinds of brainpower.

The other is that directing faculty that guides the use of raw brainpower.

But with spin states encoding ten-to-the-twentieth qbits, I can afford to have massively redundant brainpower.

And, of course, we've gotten some intelligences that have gone right off the scale, brainpower so high that we've still no real way of measuring it.

Whatever else he's got going for him, brainpower isn't a part of his arsenal.

It occurs to me that just based on brainpower alone, a fifty-fifty partnership may not be the most equitable arrangement ever to come down the pike.

It was a coincidence in timing, Nim thought, after his encounter with Eric Humphrey, that he, too, had been thinking about brainpower.

Bass's pencils, and the diminishing supply of staples, and even during gym period-one of Carmelita's bratty friends informed them that Genghis would start teaching the next day, but in the meantime they were to run around as usual-the three children raced around the lawn in utter silence, devoting all of their brainpower to thinking about their situation.

Hackpole, and the council applied its brainpower to more important matters: barking dogs, the watering of the downtown flowerboxes, and a request from the waterbed store for permission to install a Cuddle Room in which prospective customers might test the product.

Third, and the sociological optimizers proved this controversial point many years ago—although for some number of years after mental quickness and learning ability start to drop, accumulated wisdom more than compensates—in terms of value to the colony, for the diminished brainpower, there comes a time in the life of every octospider when the sheer weight of his or her past experience makes any additional learning extremely difficult.

For sheer mass of brainpower, Monte obviously outclasses any human, or any presently conceivable artificial mental construct.