The Power of the Mind

The mind is an incredibly powerful computer. It's really amazing what it can do when you think about it. Look at the calculations it has to make each second to coordinate your breathing, heart rate, your movements... thousands upon thousands of calculations, just to keep your body functioning. 

To give you an idea of it's capacity I found this article....

The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

Is that not amazing! Now if I could just get mine to have a better indexing system so I could remember things better... LOL.

-Red
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