We had really better hope that biological brains are fundamentally "bad" at consciousness, because if a human brain is as efficient at generating consciousness

We had really better hope that biological brains are fundamentally "bad" at consciousness, because if a human brain is as efficient at generating consciousness as other biological brains are at doing much older, more refined tasks, we're totally fucked. For example, a dragonfly brain takes visual input from thousands of ommatidia and uses it to track prey in 3D space and plot intercept vectors using only sixteen neurons. How many transistors does a computer need to do the same thing? Now scale that to however many neurons and synapses you guesstimate a human brain needs to create consciousness. The numbers are bad news. There's little doubt that eventually we will be able to design a computer version of a human soul. Whether that sapience fits in a computer smaller than a zip code or thinks any faster than a person is an entirely different question.