Your Brain Vs Personal Computer

When there is a battle for processing speedOn the other hand, your brain which is made up
between your brain and the computer that youwith one trillion cells with 100 trillion connections
use for your daily work, which one do you thinkbetween those cells, can understand any number
will emerge as the winner?of speakers. It may even understand multiple
Most people have something like a Pentiumlanguages at the same time. Your brain can also
computer running Windows, or a Macintosh. Aprocess complex visual images, control your entire
computer like this can execute approximately 100body, understand conceptual problems and create
million instructions per second; your particularnew ideas.
computer at home may run twice that fast orYou brain can also store memory that up to as
slower.long as 100 years, with a total "hard disk space"
But in this world, the fastest computer in theof about 5 million MB, or even more? When you
world is your brain, the most unbelievable elementare in your 80s, the times when you enjoyed
of a human body. Why do I say so? Let me justwhen you were young, you can recall them in a
give you some examples to further support mymatter of seconds, which is much faster than a
point.personal computer provided it can survive at top
Just imagine that your personal computer is justperformance for more than 10 years.
starting to understand human speech, and startingThere is a super computer that is built by a
to take dictation. It can only understand oneJapanese company, which has a theoretical
speaker and the dictation software will definitelymaximum speed of 1 petaflop (1 guadrillion
make a lot of mistake. Therefore, with 100 millionoperations per second), which is pretty fast, but
instructions per second, your particular computerstill is not as fast as your brain.
may not be able to handle it.