# Grasping Memory: The Brain’s Exceptional Storage Mechanism
Our brains are astonishing wonders of biology, comparable to the most advanced supercomputers in existence. Capable of housing the equivalent of 100 million gigabytes—approximately 4.7 billion books—our brain utilizes 86 billion neurons, 400 miles of capillaries, 100,000 miles of nerve fibers, and more than 10 trillion synapses.1 Despite this seemingly boundless capacity, we often