Hey,
Just something I found the other day that I wanted to share.
On the note of "enormous amount of information" :
Assuming that each neuron would be 1 byte, using memory units of a computer, the brain would be able to store 500-1000 terabytes of information. Most desktop computers only hold between 100 and 300 gigabytes. Each terabyte is about 1000 gigabytes. Each gigabyte is about 1000 megabytes, each megabyte about 1000 kilobytes and each kilobyte 1000 bytes (I think the correct measurement is 1024 for each of them but it's not much of a difference).
Just to show you how much information the brain is capable of holding. I doubt you'd be able to fill it to it's capacity if you were to photoread even 50 books a day for the rest of your life.
-JackTuff13
