That is very difficult to answer because you're comparing apples and oranges here. They are fundamentally different on pretty much every level. The computer-brain analogy only works on a conceptual level to give people something they can relate to (everyone knows something about computers). read more
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For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. The contraptions have won. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, the K from Fujitsu, computes four times faster and holds 10 times as much data. read more