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Comment by s-macke

What is your guess about the amount of memory needed to save a human brain. I mean all necessary information to save the personality. The article mentions 98,000 petabytes. But does this contain everything?

In Wolfram alpha and Wikipedia you can read, that the storage capacity of the human brain is around 2-2.5PB.

When I estimate it assuming 10^14 synapses and 24 bytes (weight, connection info, etc.) for each synapse, I come close to 2PB.

parent s-macke 12 years ago

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