The Mind A Treasure of Power

THE MIND A TREASURE OF POWER T he human mind is an extraordinary system. Though smaller than an orange, it can record 800 memories every second and continue doing so for an average lifespan of seventy-five years. Modern scientific research has revealed that once an idea enters the mind, it becomes a permanent part of it. Whatever information reaches the human brain is fully stored and never truly forgotten. Even if we cannot consciously recall all of it, everything remains preserved in the brain’s permanent files. If a computer were built with the same capacity as the human brain, its infrastructure would be so vast that it would fill a structure the size of the Empire State Building in New York—1,250 feet high and 102 stories tall. To operate such a supercomputer would require one billion watts of electrical power, and its cost would be beyond estimation. As noted by a writer: “The brain is a fabulous mechanism. About the size of half a grapefruit, it can record 800 memories a second for the average 75 years many of us live, without exhausting itself. The human brain retains everything it takes in and never forgets anything. Even though we don’t recall all the information received,