We can win the battle against the machines if we use our brains – Work Life

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a remarkable woman. She's a Brazilian neuroscientist who spends her time making "brain soup" -- dissolving the brains of different animals so she can work out how many cells they contain in total. In her new book, The Human Advantage, Herculano-Houzel explains how human brains have far more neurons than other species, outstripping even elephants and blue whales, whose grey matter weigh much more than ours. This groundbreaking research reveals that the human brain has 86 billion neurons -- an astonishing number, comparable to the number of stars in our galaxy. Even more incredibly, the human brain has more processing power than any supercomputer but uses less energy than a 30W light bulb.