Is the brain a great vessel?

Answer 1

Perhaps you could be a little more specific on what you are looking for. I don't know if this answers your question. But the human brain is quite magnificent. The book Is There a Creator Who Cares About You? on pages 50-72 has wonderful information about the human brain that puts us in awe of it. To quote just the first couple paragraphs of that section: "For years man's brain has been likened to a computer, yet recent discoveries show that the comparison falls far short. "How does one begin to comprehend the functioning of an organ with somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 billion neurons with a million billion synapses (connections), and with an overall firing rate of perhaps 10 million billion times per second?" asked Dr. Richard M. Restak. His answer? "The performance of even the most advanced of the neural-network computers . . . has about one ten-thousandth the mental capacity of a house fly." Consider, then, how much a computer fails to measure up to a human brain, which is so remarkably superior. What man-made computer can repair itself, rewrite its program, or improve over the years? When a computer system needs to be adjusted, a programmer must write and enter new coded instructions. Our brain does such work automatically, both in the early years of life and in old age. You would not be exaggerating to say that the most advanced computers are very primitive compared to the brain. Scientists have called it "the most complicated structure known" and "the most complex object in the universe." What do you think? Did such a unique and complicated object come about by blind chance, or was it designed?