Your billion-person computer certainly would not appear to be conscious in real time - maybe that's why you just can't get your mind around the picture. Can yo

Your billion-person computer certainly would not appear to be conscious in real time - maybe that's why you just can't get your mind around the picture. Can you imagine a billion people, none of whom who have never even heard of chess, writing out 1s and 0s, and thereby beating a grand master at the game? (in an appropriately slowed-down game, of course.)