Dan Sullivan argues the human brain is more complex than observable galaxies and consumes 150 watts of energy. Technology, including Big Data, can only predict what humans have already done, not the novel aspirations and motivations we generate constantly.
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Technology is trying very hard to keep up. Okay, that's the title of the book. Okay, tell me more. What is technology trying to keep up with? And so I did a triple play to explain what technology is trying to keep up with. One is the human brain is the most complex organism in the universe. There's nothing to match the combination of synapses. If you put all the galaxies and stars in outer space that we can detect together, it's not as complex as an individual human brain. The next part of the triple play, that when humans are using their brain to the fullest extent, they're using amount of electricity equal to 150 watt light bulb. So it's complex dynamic organism in the world and we're using up 150 watts an hour. Okay. And the third thing is human thinking at the level of consciousness is, is totally undetectable. And I was talking about Big Data and I said Big Data at its very best is capable of predicting what happened yesterday. The reason being is that our consciousness is constantly producing new aspirations and new motivations on a daily basis in response to what's happening in the world that is creating tomorrow, while Big data is predicting yesterday. So what I'm saying is that all the technology that you're using, Mike, is trying very hard to keep up with Mike, and that every day you're creating brand new stuff that's not detectable. It's going to try harder and harder to keep up with you, but it's not going to keep up with you.
