The brain is the most complex thing in the known universe. It can store the digital equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of memory. It has around 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. It runs on less power than a light bulb (10 watts). Its information-processing mode is massively parallel. A computer is a lot faster, but at present computers mostly process information in series, not in parallel. Humans are simultaneous creatures. For all the stodgy failure of our bodies, our minds are moving prisms of light. But that we have bad dreams … as Hamlet puts it. Is that End-Time? The
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