> then its thoughts would take thousands or millions of years to process This reminds me of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", where pan-dimensional beings

> then its thoughts would take thousands or millions of years to process This reminds me of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", where pan-dimensional beings waited 7.5 million years for their first super computer to tell them "42". Then they constructed another super computer, Earth, to find the question.