human brain has roughly 6.4e18 nerve impulses per second

“To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*10^18 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second,”

Source: World's total CPU power: one human brain

added 2012-03-21T11:23:10Z by anders

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