Scientists Reveal How Powerful the Human Brain Is Compared to the Fastest Supercomputers in the World

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It is a humbling thing to realize, in this age of information, that our human brain still remains such an enigma.

As we spend millions on developing ever more sophisticated supercomputers and expend enormous amounts of energy powering our devices, the ever-handy, efficient, and affordable human brain outperforms our top technology in a litany of ways. Here are a few.

1. It took 82,944 processors and 40 Minutes for a supercomputer to simulate a single second of human brain activity.

In recent years, the K supercomputer was used by researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Technology Graduate University in Japan and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany in an attempt to simulate a single second of human brain activity.