Annese is one of the world's few experts in dissecting and slicing entire human brains; he has been practicing this craft since 1994. (discovermagazine.com)
The entire human brain is about 75,000 times heavier than the 0.02 gram of processing circuitry in the retina, which implies that it would take, in round numbers, 100 million MIPS (100 trillion instructions per second) to emulate the 1,500 - gram human brain. (scientificamerican.com)
An even more holistic vision of the brain is emerging from connectomics, which seeks to create a wiring diagram of the entire human brain. (discovermagazine.com)