How much informationg can the Brain hold in gigabytes?

[snake201]

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[dirtylicious]

we'll never know

personally...I say it's unlimited in storage

it's the recall ability that is limited.

 

[putting in work]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

we'll never know

personally...I say it's unlimited in storage

it's the recall ability that is limited.

 

[xxthe king of kingsxx]

OPEN IT UP AND SEE

 

[apocalypz]

The brain is not a machine. Therefore, it's memory cannot be measured in bytes.

 

[sangalang]

try measuring in terabytes and you'll be closer. but really, i agree with dirty.

 

[hockamania]

well that depends..memories are stored chemically as proteins or what not (not sure, never studied bio) and that means there has to be a physical limit

 

[servechilled81]

the brains storage is infinite. The ability to recall everything you've stored there deteriorates

 

[BANLEU]

I don't know but I read that the human brain can hold about 100 trillion facts in a lifetime.

 

[gregorio1]

I don't remember where I read it, but someone's best guess at quantifying it was 40 petabytes.

 

[wreckinkickz]

1.2 bytes

 

[bbanks707]

^ The average NT'er

 

[martin and co]

Trying to use your buddy's brain as an external HD?

 

[soulofkuribo]

Where's King Louis when there is a intelligent topic? Exactly.

 

[jay dean03]

800,000,000 yottabytes

 

[danikerhino]

Originally Posted by gregorio1

I don't remember where I read it, but someone's best guess at quantifying it was 40 petabytes.

That's what I saw in the discovery channel one day. They said it was only an estimate though.

 

[vandalshark]

can you even name every single file in the windows folder

hard drive> brain but seriously you its not possible to put them in the same class. its like asking which can calculate 574574839374 * 4845836383faster

 

[snake201]

Originally Posted by vandalshark

can you even name every single file in the windows folder

hard drive > brain but seriously you its not possible to put them in the same class. its like asking which can calculate 574574839374 * 4845836383 faster

Google:
[h2][size=+1]574 574 839 374 * 4 845 836 383 = 2.78429566 × 10[sup]21[/sup][/size][/h2]

 

[whywesteppin]

First, the ability to store memories is not infinite unless you believe there is a non-physical aspect of your brain that has infiinite storage.

Second, you could theoretically quantify the number. The only problem is that the brain is constantly changing and also the brain doesn't store things inthe standard way. Everything is distributed and plastic and recall itself would change things.

 

[ouch my feet]

100 TB seems to be the general number. There was a recent article on this and I ran into it while stumbling, I cant find it at the moment but I did find this.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2002/11/56459

 

[southzeztpdot]

One single fact shouldnt be any more than like what 200 byes at most.

 

[sifupooh]

mind is infinite, universe is mental, watch your thoughts and be careful on some click click wu tang the W tip

 

[big fame one]

Sadly, mine topped out at just over 870 megs.

 

[shoxbb433]

some people get stuck with floppy drives...lol

 

[bastitch]

The real "geek" move would be to ask in what manner is the information stored and/or formatted. Is there a certain level of compression? Is theinformation being stored in plain text? Also, the assumption is that it would have to be stored in some sort of database since the information would beregularly be recalled and/or queried. If that's the case, is there an additional indexing database that keeps track of where each bit of information isstored? Does each section of the brain contain it's own database? Do the left and right sides server as a active/passive failover pair? Or do are they inan active/active cluster, each running their own fucntions but still have the ability to failover to one another in the event of a hardware fault.

There's just so much to ask before one can answer this question.