text: First, let’s compare your mind to the most powerful man-made invention, the computer. The average computer can hold thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos and perform multiple operations at the same time, as well as performing lightning fast computations and store enormous amount of data. Amazing, right? But let’s take a look at your mind for a moment. Recently, in Japan scientists created a computer which was able to mimic 1% of 1 second’s worth of human brain activity. To mimic this relatively miniscule amount of brain power, they needed 83,000 processors from one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. These processors required about 40 minutes and a petabyte of memory, which is the equivalent of about 250,000 standard PCs just to mimic 1% of 1 second of what your brain can do. Amazing!