Although it seems hard to believe sometimes in the world of today, people are pretty smart. Humans have the brain power to outperform the most powerful computer in the world 1000 times over. As of now, IBM's BlueGene/L is 360 TeraFLOPS (360 trillion FLoating Point Operations Per Second, or 360,000,000,000,000 processor calculations per second), which is drool causing speed, is only 0.036% or 1/2,778 of one human's brain power. To put that in perspective, the average processor speed within the last five years is about 1.6GigaFLOPS to 10.4GigaFLOPS (1,600,000,000 to 10,400,000,000 calculations per second) when all CPU cores are accounted for. To aid with perspective even more, the BlueGene/L is about 41 thousand times fast than your average computer nowadays, and the human brain is about 114 million times faster than your run of the mill computer.
Your brain is made of mushroom consisting of gray and white tissue of gelatinous consistency. It also sports an awe-striking 30 billion neurons and 150-210 billion glial cells. Those neurons are spider like things which blast information to adjacent neurons and receive information at approximately 210 MPH. The neurons must recharge chemically after firing, but only take about 1/2000 of a second or 500 microseconds (500 millionths of a second) to do so.
Humans have an immense amount of brain power and it seems some of us use it, while others do not. But regardless, our brain is able to process just mounds and mounds of information at blazing speeds; equal to about 1ExaFLOPS or 1 quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second of information processing if it were a manmade computer. With all that power in such a compact space such as our skull, it is easy to be awed by the wonders human life. It's seriously too bad human brain power is not used to its full potential, but a future like that is possible. You seriously have to admire the human brain.
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