[Psalm 73]

"...with a human consisting of a 3# lump of specialized nerve cells called a brain which was fully portable and was self-cooling.
I think it will be a long time before IBM can scale Watson down to anything as miraculous and efficient as we are."

Well said, besides the human brain is also focusing on a billion other functions while its competing against a single-minded machine:
Keeping that complex body humming along and all of its seperate systems in synch.
Thinking about his job, politics, relationships, etc., all passing through his consious mind - I mean none of us can make it stop - that stuff just humms along inside there....

[Dick Bachert]

Yes, “We are fearfully and wondrously made.”

(Even the nutjob “progressives.” They’re just incorrectly wired.)

[William Tell]

Psalm 73 said: "I think it will be a long time before IBM can scale Watson down to anything as miraculous and efficient as we are."

It wasn't that long ago that technologists considered the ability to play chess as a goal for computers that would indicate a dramatic accomplishment. That goal has since been passed and practically forgotten.

Moore's Law predicts an exponential growth in computer attributes such as speed, memory size, and compactness with the attribute doubling or halving every two years.

Assuming that Watson requires a room which is ten by ten by twenty feet, how many doublings of computer density would be required to fit it into a package of a six inch cube?

My rought calculation suggests this could happen in 35 years; a mere eye-blink in recorded history. The cost could be expected to be below $1000. I probably won't live to see it, but my daughters will. Life will be very different then.