I was wondering if you would express human memory in G bytes just like we do with a computer, or any other storage media. Of course it is a bit more cumbersome for humans, but approximately, because if you sometimes see how much learning material a person has to process, the storage in our brains must be incredibly large. That’s stacks of books.
Just like with a DVD, the loss of data also occurs in humans at a later age (Alzheimer’s).
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Dear Frank,
This information is from “National Geographic” from November 2007.
“The best definition neurologists can give at the moment is this: A memory is a stored pattern of connections between nerve cells in the brain. There are about a hundred billion such nerve cells that each have between five and ten thousand synaptic connections with other neurons. neurons, so that there are a total of about 500 trillion to a thousand trillion synapses in the average adult brain. By comparison, the Library of Congress’s library of books contains about 32 trillion bytes of information.”
Be sure to look it up!
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