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SV: Capacity of the brain

Jamie Lokier spamfilter.oct1999 at tantalophile.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 21 08:26:56 EST 1999


Peter da Silva writes:
>> 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.

Quantum physics allows information to be stored in the entanglements
between particles.  We don't know if there's a limit on the amount of
information stored in the enganglements with the environment, that the
brain can decode...

-- Jamie



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