In The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind, Eric Harth raises one of the many difficulties that beset the materialist hope of determining exact brain states: We would want to know in every millisecond (the time it takes a neuron to fire) which of the 100 billion or so neurons are active and which are not. If we denote activity by a “1” and inactivity by a “0,” this would require a string of 100 billion zeros and ones every millisecond, or 100 trillion every second. To give a running account of the true neural state, I would have to produce in every second something like 110 million books, each containing a million symbols. This awesome record is to be compared with my mental states as they occur.74

In The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind, Eric Harth raises one of the many difficulties that beset the materialist hope of determining exact brain states: We would want to know in every millisecond (the time it takes a neuron to fire) which of the 100 billion or so neurons are active and which are not. If we denote activity by a “1” and inactivity by a “0,” this would require a string of 100 billion zeros and ones every millisecond, or 100 trillion every second. To give a running account of the true neural state, I would have to produce in every second something like 110 million books, each containing a million symbols. This awesome record is to be compared with my mental states as they occur.74