On 30 Aug 1999, Bill Skaggs wrote:
> "Claes Frisk" <Claes.Frisk at psyk.ks.se> writes:
>> > Are there any reasonable estimations of the capacity(speed, memory,...) of
> > the brain in computer terms?
> > I realize that the two can't be directly compared, but I guess that it's
> > been done a number of times anyway.
>> You see numbers every so often, but mostly they're off the cuff and
> not very reasonable. My own very rough estimate, based on counting
> memory elements and guessing their individual capacity, is about 1 -
> 10 terabytes of memory.....<snip>
Hey,
you counted the memory elements of a (the) brain? Then you can probably
tell us poor neurobiologists what they are and how they work ;-).
Greetings, Leo
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