How many molecular switches in your brain?

By Rhiannonw

Wed, 15 Jun 2011
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How many stars in the Milky Way?
How many nerve links in part of my brain?
How many switches, – well, now they can say
more than the number of computers and routers,
and internet connections all over the earth,
a thousand times more than that number of stars,
– and all so transportable, useful, compact,
– amazing, impossible, miraculous fact!
(ref: “Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth” – news.cnet)

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Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

That's a nice fact to know and marvel about. I expect with getting older, quite a few of those switches get rusty, but I'm doing my best to keep mine in working order.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

! I'm just working on some news item about how the brain is refreshed, mostly when we are asleep! Rhiannon

PS I've just been looking up again about this, and just think maybe I meant over a 1000 X the number of stars in the Milky Way, I think I saw 1500 quoted, so the million I wrote originally may have been a bit much, but there are so many 0s in the figures, it is confusing and it is still amazing for our little useful brain! Rhiannon