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How Many GB's / TB's do you think your Brain can hold

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    Sounds to me that "once we find out exactly how the human brain works" we will have supercomputers the size of a melon in the future so ??

    Bolding points doesn't mean that you haven't left out important caveats that are required to give your hypothesis some merit.

    Would you like some lovely crayons?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Try 2.5 petabytes.

    4 TB is nothing.



    This is a little bit off, common thought seems to be that the way the brain stores memory is through association, not direct record/replication.

    If you walk into a room 400 times you don't have 400 recordings of the room, you have one, which the brain alters and updates accordingly depending on changes made to the room...the changes then overlap...but the memory of the human brain is basically transient and ethereal, it's not static.

    Is this the reason that when one of my friends gets a haircut I can't remember what they looked like before?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Our brain is not like a hard disk at all though... it's apples ans oranges.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Bolding pointsdoesn't mean that you haven't left out important caveats that are required to give your hypothesis some merit.

    Would you like some lovely crayons?
    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
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    Yes you are.

    Back on-topic please.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    150 petaflops.


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Casillas


    Bah, I use cloud computing also known as the ether.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Funny thing about memory...every time you remember something, your brain rewrites it, which keeps it 'fresh'. If it does this enough times, the memory (neural pathways) becomes more static..i.e, it becomes long term memory. But even these long term memories degrade over time if we are not actively reminded of them, which then 'rewrites' the memory. And events that only happened recently can have gaps as well, as the brain only tries to retain relevant information...it deliberate forgets most of what we sense.

    The brain has a great way of dealing with this. It fills in the missing bits with 'likely data' based from other long term memories.
    If you ask 5 people to exactly describe an event that happened just a few hours ago, or many many years ago, you will get very different recollections because of this. So oddly enough, for most cases, the memories from a few weeks/months ago that are 'important' are actually our more accurate memories.

    For evolution, it makes sense. Information we know longer regularly need is forgotten over time, and things that just happened are only put into long term memory if we see it as important or use it a lot.

    So, for this reason, memory capacity probably won't ever be reached.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Incalculable in real terms.
    The brain is incredibly good at compressing data and not the same way that computers do


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Burgo wrote: »
    How much could johnny mnemonic hold?
    80GB 'cos he needs a memory doubler just to get to 160GB
    but he stretches it out to 320GB :eek:

    So looks like he's using something like Nand Flash and going up to 4 bits per cell.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/nand_bleak_future/
    For example, our data show each additional bit-per-cell increases write latency by 4X and reduces program/erase lifetime by 10X to 20X, while providing decreasing returns in density (2X, 1.5X, and 1.3X between 1-,2-,3- and 4-bit cells, respectively).


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Ah here you seriously cannot compare the brain to even the most advanced super computer. For one they have a fairly good understanding of how a computer works.


  • Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    250 gb 5400 rpm :(

    Anyone reccommend a good free tumour scanner/remover


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