The Treasure House of Power

The Treasure House of Power

1990 4 April 5 The Treasure House of Power (363) If a computer to match the brain’s potential was built, it would occupy space comparable to the size of the Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall). The mind is one of God’s most amazing gifts to man. Yet most people use only a small fraction of their mental ability. For many, the power remains largely untapped.

In an article on human brain, The Plain Truth (October 1988) writes: “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, everything is on permanent file in our brain. If a computer to match the brain’s potential was built, it would occupy space comparable to the size of the Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall) and need, 1,000,000,000 watts of electrical power to run. The cost would be equally immense. The mind is one of God’s most amazing gifts to man. Yet most people use only a small fraction of their mental ability. For many, the power remains largely untapped.”

Another article, ‘Our Wondrous Brain,’ published in the American magazine Span (September 1989) and edited by William F. Allman, Senior Editor of U.S. News and World Report, tells us that research work on the brain has been so stepped up that the recent increase in information on the brain has been like an explosion. In fact, a whole new branch of Science – Brain Science – has now come into existence.

Our Scientist has called the brain an ‘engine of thought.’ But this term is quite inadequate, for the functioning in unison of the 100,000 million neurons of the brain, with all its capacity for instant differentiation, far surpasses that of any potential machine, no matter how great its capabilities. In fact, according to the article in Span, “An explosion of recent findings in brain science – aided by new computer programs that can simulate brain cells in action – is now revealing that the brain is far more intricate than any mechanical device imaginable.” (p 24)