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SV: Capacity of the brain

Peter da Silva peter at abbnm.com
Sun Oct 17 07:45:46 EST 1999


In article <38099E86.5A2CBDA3 at impulse.net>,  <bandr at impulse.net> wrote:
> >             Also you may want to think of where memory is actually
> > >> stored in the human body. Is it only the brain or is it in nerve clusters
> > >> period.

> All of your memory ingrams are in your brain.  Your memories are not stored
> anywhere else.

Cite?

>  So far there is no known limit to the amount of information one
> can remember.

We know there's a limit (quantum physics imposes a limit on the number of
separate states that can be maintained in that number of particles), we just
don't know where it is.

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