Your Brain Has As Much Memory As The Internet

New research into the brain’s synapses has found that the human brain has 10 times the memory capacity previously thought. In computer terms, it comes to at least a petabyte, the memory capacity of the world wide web.

Now use your internet-sized brain to think about that. Didn’t the world wide web have to be, you know, designed and created? Could the internet have come into existence purely through random processes? Yes, the internet is an example of a system with millions of separate agents, sort of like the economy, but doesn’t it require pre-existing minds? So what about the 7 billion minds existing on the earth today, each with the capacity of the entire internet?From Jim Algar, Memory Capacity Of Our Brains 10 Times What Was Previously Believed, Equal To Entire Internet : SCIENCE : Tech Times:

The memory capacity of our brains may be 10 times what was previously believed, say scientists who’ve gained important insights into the size and extent of our neural connections.

The work is providing answers to questions about how the brain manages to be so energy efficient, requiring only low energy but capable of extreme computational power, researchers at Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. say.

“This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience,” says Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. “Our new measurements of the brain’s memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web.”

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