I think this might be a case of expecting a fish to climb a tree. Brains are terrible in fp32 performance, and computers are so far not great at reasoning. But that’s mostly because they are made for different things. I’m not sure of this, but i would expect a single neuron firing costing a similar amount of energy as a single transistor firing. The difference is in part that they work differently, but I think the most important part is that they are put together differently. Computers were made for arithmetic while brains evolved for socialising and survival. For most other things you are 100% correct though, we could not recreate a bee or an ant even if we wanted to.

My parents were rather strict with the music lessons, which I did sometimes resent at the time. These days I’m grateful as I couldn’t imagine not being able to just play the music that’s in my head. My parents a little less so, as they have heard “enough Prokofiev for a lifetime”, and my polyrhythms make them feel like they have a “heart attack”.

I have encountered one issue in factorio where large blueprint strings can’t be imported in the Linux version. Other than that, the record has been pretty much spotless.