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It is safe to assumed that the human brain can solve complex problems (like pattern and voice recognition and path navigation) that computers currently can't. The question is, has anyone actually done the formal proof that the human brain can actually solve an NP-complete problem? That is, has anyone ever formalized a problem that humans can solve, and prove that humans can solve it exactly (and not just heuristically)? An example is chess : except for errors due to fatigue, humans can out-perform computers. Given the number of brain cells and time and level of solution, however, is this proof of an human-brain polynomial solution of an NP-complete problem?
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