>combinatorially explosive amount of information that we deal with at every single moment What are you referring to? The sensory input to the brain takes, as a

>combinatorially explosive amount of information that we deal with at every single moment What are you referring to? The sensory input to the brain takes, as a ridiculously high upper bound, perhaps terabits per second. In reality it's probably a few megabits. It's really not much. Vision is, I suspect, by far the highest bandwidth input to our brain, and computer vision has met or exceeded human vision in many tasks.