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Isn't that the same with e.g. human brain? Computer program can compute billions of equations, whilst human will struggle with just one.
Human brain does a lot more at any given time than just whatever you're consciously thinking about.
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Perhaps, but it doesn't indicate anything new or interesting about cognition or biology.

For example, Minecraft in Minecraft [0] is (while impressive) slow and inefficient too, but it doesn't tell us much about humans except that some of them are weirdly ambitious in their projects.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I