21 hours agoDo you know how much information the human brain can hold?
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The human brain has a capacity ten times as much as previously assumed, and it can save 4.7 billion books, discover scientists who have measured the capacity to preserve synapsal connections that are responsible for saving memories. They have discovered that, on average, a mustard can be stored around [...]
The human brain has a capacity ten times as much as previously assumed, and it can save 4.7 billion books, discover scientists who have measured the capacity to preserve synapsal connections that are responsible for saving memories. They have discovered that, on average, a mustard can store about 4.7 bit of information. This means that the human brain has the capacity of a petabite, or 1,000,000,000 bits.
A petab is the same as 20 million drawers filled with text, 13.3 years of HD recordings, 4.7 billion books or 670 million web pages.
As for this discovery, Professor Terry Seninowski of Salt Institute for Biological Studies has said that this discovery is historical in the field of neuroscience.
It's worth the fact that their research is published on eLife.
