# Computational Resources
**Entity class:** Concept or analytic term
## Definition
**Computational Resources** is the processors, memory, storage, network capacity, energy, and scheduling rights required to execute computational work.
## Relationships
**Related concepts:** [[wiki/Simulated World|Simulated World]] · [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] · [[wiki/AI Factory|AI Factory]] · [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]]
**Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]
**Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]
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## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts
> "Now we are told that an exascale supercomputer will be able to solve the mysteries of the human brain."
> **— Seth Lloyd**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”*
[[reminders/Machine Succession/Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd|Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd]]