Your brain contains billions of neurons; cells that send and receive messages. Scientists, in an attempt to preserve the human brain after death, try to map theses neural connections through a process they call the connectome.

Scientists claim to have successfully preserved the connectoms of a mouse, rabbit, and pig.

They have not yet been able to preserve the connectoms of a human, because to do so would require virtually half of the world’s current digital storage capacity.

Digital storage capacity to map a human connectome: 1.3 billion terabytes

Global digital storage capacity: 2.6 billion terabytes (2014)

Next time you question your capacity, abilities or potential, remember, visualizing your brain would require nearly half the digital storage capacity on planet earth. That’s the real power of your brain – It’s the real power of you.