How Much Data Can Our Brains Store?
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- Our brains aren't exactly like a computer's hard drive, but it can still be fun to think about just how much storage space we have in our noggins.
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150 TB and half of them are used for embarrassing memories from high school.
All of them stored in 16K 3D stereo ultra HD with extra metadata
@@cezarcatalin1406 :o
That was a pretty good expansion of the pun. :D
The answer is to "stop it" just remeber to forget the memory and stop reenforcing that synaptic path /s
Not to worry - by the time you hit 50, you'll have forgotten pretty much all of it. Except for that asshat in English - that sucker's memories will ALWAYS be there. 😬
and the other half are memes and stupid facts
I think I have ran out of space as when I taught myself how to make homemade beer I forgot how to drive.
One of my favorite Simpsons jokes, thanks for reminding me. :)
wait...what? lololol
@@darkdialga777 Classic Simpsons, the early series were all pure gold.
Niceeeee😂😂😂
Speak out and remove all doubt! A
But how much of the brain's space is taken up by the Operating System?
I would say the operating system is the brain structure itself. So it's not stored anywhere. Like, the brain doesn't interact with itself to run a routine to imprint a memory for exemple (which computers do), the memory imprinting is just a natural result of the brain working.
Maybe about 50%? 😂😂😂
You are the OS. So every part of the brain is the OS. Your memories and learning shape who you are.
For some, probably alot, seeing how some people are soo full of themselves.
The boot ROM would be the brain stem
I wonder what KIND of information is hardest to store/ takes up the most “data” because I can recite schoolhouse rock songs that I haven’t listened to in like a decade, but can’t remember how to spell simple words
Our brains deem things with emotional associations very important. Negative emotions are especially significant; it's more important to remember and be able to avoid uncomfortable situations than to seek constant happiness at the cost of survival chances.
Spelling is boring and unemotional. Listening to music is awesome and fun and probably has a positive social connotation for your brain :)
@@98Zai Emotion definitely plays a large part, since emotion and memories go hand in hand
Its hard to try and think of memories with no emotion, unless they are things like how to write words
Annonimoose Q Motor memories are stored deepest as they deal with movement. That's why there is the saying that something is 'just like riding a bike' bc that kind motor coordination learned early will stay with you.
Brain is association machine. Linked information is good, abstract and isolated is bad.
I heard that the strongest emotions are the ones associated with smells.
"Give your brain some credit, it's probably pretty spacious." That sounds like a backhanded compliment. :P
LOL: Airhead!
I must've missed the recent update. My memory size is still 32MB...
640KB out to be enough for everyone
Laughs in 7kb
64bytes: hold my chips
Ok
Not only does it store data, it keeps us breathing, thinking, our senses working, typing this message, and laughing at cat memes. So much more than just a storage device.
those are in the ram on the brain
Intelligent design. Not evolution
@@deafbyhiphopbased on what evidence?
Yet exams are coming up, and everything I read my brain’s just like “Ya know, I _could_ store this. But *why* would I use up VaLuAbLe SpAcE on that”
You know you’re in trouble when you close your eyes and see the message “iCloud backup was unsuccessful”.
lolol
When your data gets corrupted randomly. You think of something else and immedietly forget what you were thinking about. I hate it so much
Whoever is stupid enough to pay premium prices for Apple products has far worse problems, than just data loss.
Frank Schneider thanks for inserting your ignorant, bigoted remark into what was simply a joke. Get a girlfriend, you’ll feel better about yourself.
@@dennisvance4004
The truth hurts, does't ?
Short answer: We don't know.
We don't really understand how our brains store memories.
@@larrydavison8298 We don't really understand how anything works. Why are we here rather than not?
@@Kevin-sy8uf I'm here because I just took a shower and would like to dry off. You?
It's probably more like "Short answer: Is red faster than 7?"
The mechanisms of action are so different that it is difficult to compare them meaningfully.
Me: my memory is so bad I forget bits when I wake up the next day, my PC is so good at storing information - so jealous.
RAM: am I a joke to you?
Eye witness testomony "I dunno man I think it was black guy with no hair." Cameras later found to have footage of the incident "I was a white male of about 35 years of age with full head of hair and a number of grey hairs, brown eyes, etc" Hell at least when a file is corrupted in PC it can be restored and yet with a lot more processing power and millions of years of evolution the human brain can only sometimes(people with crazy and rare impressive memorories) be nearly as good at storing and accessing accurate information that it evolved for millions of years. The human brain has been running on massive amounts of processing power for hundreds of thousands of years and evolving(microevolution) the whole time and computers have only been around for about 70 or so years and are often much better at many specific tasks.(assuming there is intelligent life imput anyway)
DRAM can forget data if you don't remind it about it in as little as 64 milliseconds.
A joke that Hertz 😉
Thanks for the likes!
Your brain also stores the firing patterns for all the neurons too(memories, actions, etc)
You know the brain is more complex than i think it is
Every time she said “synapses” i head “synapsids”, and now a cant get the image of tiny dimetrodons crawling around on neurons out of my head....
Hahahaha!!
The ways that brains compress and recompile "memories" and other data is also very different than a digital computer.
its probably not digital?
0:13 that HD won't store anything if you keep holding it that way 😂
I can hold one hundred and ten datas in my brain
I dOnT gEt iT mAn...
@@williandalsoto806 that's a biggest number I know
that"s Verr y good'f â sqriell. .. :
@@zack7122 lol
There is just one Data (Lore doesn't count)
Hard Drives? Nah man, its 2019, we got them SSDs
Plus from what I've learned the brain can change it's capacity, while computers of course cannot
Well said. My "intelligent statement of the month" award I gift to you if you accept. We owe you a coke.
@@timothycurnock9162 haha thanks
It's just leftover knowledge from one of my computer science assignments lol
@@everythingwho well technically computers can, you can plug in flash drives hard drives ssd's etc
150tb would be accurate, but you have to realize those memories are stored in an encrypted format that requires large amounts of ephedrine to recover/unencrypt.
Well back to meth for school exams then i guess
All I know at 44 years old is that my memory definitely doesn't work as well, and it seems like when I learn stuff, I forget other stuff, so I'd say I'm at capacity.
You should get rid of unnecessary stuff. You don't really need to know, what your mother looks like, what your name is, how to use a toilet or how ro not drool on your clothes.
Just get rid of that superfluous junk and use the thus freed space for more valuable things, e.g. the names of all Pokemons
I can visually remember most of every movie I have ever watched.
My brain likes to pirate movies...
If i'm not wrong, you can't remember an image exactly, but details.
You never remember a memory exactly, you recreate it from the details in you mind, that's why you can accidently alter your own memories. It is also why most peoples earliest memories are made up memories from before the brain is developed enough to to have long term memory.
Therefore you cant visually remember a movie, and the longer you don't see it but recollect it, the more you change details and aspect of it.
My ability to manipulate 3d shapes in my mind is superior to the average on IQ tests but i can't fully image the monalisa, just parts of it at a time
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR
@@EnGalenPerson My kid brain: "I would totally steal a car. Guess I'm doing the movie thing, too!
@@peter4210 I think Mona Lisa, and all the portions I've ever cared to notice come to mind. The more I've seen it, the closer attention I've paid, the clearer and easier the visualization becomes.
Daydreaming in a way.
@@oddowlomen9921 yes but i dare you to see her smile in your mind and also think of the separation of the ground and the sky in the back ground at the same time and not lose details about her lips.
If it takes you more then 1 try to keeps both in mind you probably altered your own memory to think of both at the same time, probably lost some details in the process and cant think if her right hand is on top of her left hand
Aah yes the pinnacle of storage:
DVD
I heard there were theories of the brain being able to store well into the petabite range
If you add up a lifetime of sensory reception and factor in the limits of color/luminosity of sight, frequency/volume of hearing, and add a bit for haptic sensing, you come in around a petabyte of sensation.
Since memories are formed from sense impressions and built-in instinct seems to be truly minimal in humans, this is a sort of maximum of what information a person can be exposed to. Thus our memories (even if perfect) can't exceed this amount.
Which is a bit chilling; petabyte servers are rather common in today's server market, and even within the reach of (wealthy) consumers at a little over $100,000.00 (2019). And the price is going down; SSD storage just jumped to 8 Terabytes per unit (PCI mount) - expensive now, but cheaper as soon as production ramps up.
So a paralyzed person could have a wide-screen, surround-sound system feeding them a normal lifetime's worth of experience. This rather than the sensory-deprivation lifestyle of only a few decades ago. With brain scanning (or some other feedback mechanism) they could even have interactivity for some multiple of this storage.
Wasn't that from the movie elysium or something haha
@Guillaume: Haven't seen that one. Ah, same director as District 9.
I've got that one in the queue now, thanks.
2.5 petabytes actually
"thought experiment"
I wonder what would happen if an immortal being reaches this limit. Would the oldest memories be deleted to make room or would new memories not be stored
Well old memories are constantly being forgotten, the size of memories themselves are likely very small, perhaps being encrypted by the emotions tied to them, since certain emotions or senses can instantly bring back memories
If someone does actually hit the limit, anything could really happen
A new disease that eats memory, physical pain from having to much memory, also eating memory
Perhaps an overflow error, and the entire brain resets to 0, making the person remember nothing, not even how to walk, making them mentally like a newborn
There are other options, like DNA. Since it is *literally* a data-storage medium, it should be possible to use DNA to store memories, and compared to other media it has two major advantages (plus one possible third).
Firstly it is easily duplicated yet remarkably stable, capable of surviving for thousands of years under the right circumstances. This means making backup copies of a memory would be relatively easy.
Secondly, the data density for DNA storage is mind-bogglingly high. In theory you could store the sum total of all human knowledge in just a few grams of DNA, even with triple redundancy, so the memories of one sapient, even one millions of years old, would take up a tiny amount of space.
The possible third advantage is that any organism which uses DNA to code for proteins etc. already has the physical mechanisms needed to code memories onto DNA. This makes it theoretically possible for DNA to augment human memory without any major changes to physiology outside of changes to our neurons, as memory-DNA could be stored within specialised organelles inside those cells.
The key drawback is that, while synaptic memory is immediate-access, DNA memory would not be. Any encoded memories would have to be translated by mechanisms within the storage organelles, and after enough time there would be so much data within a brain that finding a specific memory might take a while. However even that has advantages, is it would require a degree of conscious management of memories. This means you could selectively dump all those embarrassing incidents at school into memory-DNA, and they'd stop troubling you at 3am in the morning because they'd no-longer be in your synaptic memory.
If they couldn't transcend that kind of limitation, I imagine that some process analogous to deduplication would take place.
Lol I forgot what I ate yesterday, as long as it's uneeded for survival (danger/source of happiness etc) and not needed in daily life (often activated) , every thing fade eventually I guess. Immortal beings with a human brain would probably forget easily what's beyond the 1 century mark honestly
Humans: "We can finally store data in the form of solid state!"
Aliens: Visit Earth to store data in Human's Brains
😂
Oddball Computer: clockspeed of 120 yottaflops, storage capacity of 27MB.
That's a fast yet tiny computer
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I’m having a study break as I’m studying to my last finals in law school. I clicked so fast.. 😅 I feel like I’m reaching my limit.. 😅🤯
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And then - bar exams!
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GODSPEED.
Spacious, but also the applications they're running are huge.
taskkill /f /im consciousness.exe
@@matthewcox7985 Oh fu....
How my brain storage works...
Things I need to learn to help me in life: 4kb.
All the bad things that have happened to me in my entire life: 999TB.
#feelsbadman
My brain has a hard drive, which is what makes NNN so difficult.
Wow if this is true we should all be getting phds. But seriously, I think about this all the time thanks for making an episode!!! Love how SciShow answers the nerdy questions that keep me up at night, so I can sleep a little sounder.
Love and respect to all of you Scishow hosts
Great comment. A year ago the comment section of any of Olivia's vids was full of negative comments about her appearance. It's great to see that has stopped.
So spacious. That's why I lose everything I try to remember! It's rattling around in there :P
Do we know how memories are stored? Years ago the theory was that the interconnections of neurons defined memory while the firing of neurons defined active thought. If that's still believed to be true (I doubt it is but I'm realizing as I type how ignorant I've become on this subject) then the number of states in a neuron control computational complexity, not memory capacity. Computers have a fairly clear line between processing capacity and storage capacity, but I doubt the architecture of brains are as clearly delineated.
You also have to account that brains work with both electric impulses and chemical reactions. Which can make brain further diverge from computers.
I hear that memories are not "stored" but rather "reconstructed" each time they are invoked. So a memory is more like reactivation of the neuronal state you were in at a certain point (vision, touch, smell, meaning, etc).
This also explains why memories are rarely static, they change a little bit everytime they are re-invoked, adding new thoughts and context each time.
As for those that are not re-invoked and hold no significant emotional value... They fade...
Because brain say : I shall not waste ressources on things useless for everyday life or survival.
@@lalaland1427 interesting, another question, if someone is more emotional/ sensitive, is his/her capacity to invoke memory better than other human?
@@never._.mind._.to answer "if someone is more emotional, is their capacity to invoke memory "better" than others ? ".
Well there are several possible explanation I would say. (I'm not a specialist on the subject, I am just really interested. So please don't take my answer as an undeniable truth)
To give a few explanations that seem realistic to me :
- their "sensitive pathways", or neural networks involved in emotions could be more used than in other people (because of training, or they were raised to care for others for example, I don't know I'm giving ideas).
The consequence would be that they have more connexions with other neural networks (thus more contexts in which "emotion" is coming up)
The neural connexions could be faster too (as in, the electric signals pass faster, because neurons can facilitate the passage on some part of the network. Kind of like greasing the way to improve gliding)
- the emotional sensitivity could also be related to genetics, maybe. Some people are more prone to depression for example (and addictions, it's kind of related, due to some chemical receptors being used in both situations)
- sensitivity can also come from lack lf habituation. Example : you live in the cold every day of the year, you get kind of insensitive to the cold, especially compared to someone living in the sahara. Same thing with personal relationships : you live in a big city, you get kind of insensitive to the massive number of people around. Because brain says : it's normal, I don't need to pay attention to those stimuli I receive massively everyday. But people with less social interaction take in EVERYTHING and are more easily overwhelmed.
Thus "extra-sensitivity" can also be a problem of paying too much attention, being unable to sort out what is relevant and what is not so much relevant. It's an unconscious attentional process, there are several kinds of attention, and this one is the "so fast it's barely noticeable, even less controlable" kind. It's like the attention you pay when a sudden loud noise happen. You usually don't control the flinch ( It can be trained though. Meditation for example is a good way to improve attentional concentration and learn to avoid undesired stimuli. Or crowd diving. Whatever suits you best).
Some people have conditions provoking some problems with attention too (some forms of dislexia involve a reduced visual attention span for example, some schizophrens cannot pay attention to the right parts of a face when they are looking at someone, thus they become "emotionally weirded out" as in scared or absolutely certain the person wants to harm them because they can't read their expression correctly.
So emotional sensitivity could also be related to the pattern your eyes make when looking at someone's face. Maybe an emotional person is lingering more on expressive areas ? Or they are able to decipherate more informations than the average person ?
So many possible explanations, so I'm sorry, I can't answer your question very precisely, but I hope this helped you a little.
@@lalaland1427 thanks.. i'm very satisfied with your explanation, i shouldn't use "sensitive", i was referring to "emotional value" you mentioned earlier..
your point about out-of-ordinary stimuli made sense too, maybe people tend to remember something new/shocking than the ordinary stimuli..
i have other question, is the earliest human memory cannot be fully retrieved? or reconstructed as you said?
or only the ones with emotional value can be remembered?
have you ever triggered to remember your insignificant/ordinary long-term memory by certain stimuli? with no emotional value..
With how I can just randomly remember the most minuscule detail of something that happened to me a decade ago I would have thought our brains had way more storage
What's interessting about how our memory works is, that our brains are capable of compressing data indefinitly. Your short term memory usually is capable of holding 4-5 "items", that means 4 or 5 slots for your brain to store information in.
If I asked you to remember 5 numbers for example just: 1;2;3;4;5. Your memory would be full. Asking you to remember another number would result in you losing one. Now however if you compress those Numbers to one Number for example:21345. You still remember all 5 Numbers just compressed into one.
And you could do that with everything as long as you find a way to combine the things you try to remember into one "item". Basically association
Right! It's all about compression. In practice brain storage could be infinite, it just gets more compressed and tangled the more you learn.
Don't talk rubbish. The lower compression boundary has been defied by Shannon in his works to Information theory. Claiming the brain could infinitely compress data is just as reasonable as claiming the brain could created energy out of nothing.
Why do you people talk such nonsense ?
@@frankschneider6156 and yet you can put 4-5 "items" in your short term memomry, and remember them fully no matter their actual size
I wonder what the equivalent in bits is in our brain for doing tasks like learning how to cook a particular recipe, playing a song on an instrument, memorizing lines in a play (or in a sci-show video), etc.
Jokes on you I use SSD's in my computer
What is the joke?
Unless faster means more capacity( it does not as far as I know) I do not get it.
@@cornlips7247 at the start of the video they said they use hard drives but most people just use SSD's now
@@alan202 I must have missed them saying that thank you.
I doubt Stats would back up that most people claim though. A lot do but I would guarantee it is not most people yet.
@@alan202 ssds are expensive. I have one but it's for the operating system files
@@Azaelris no they're the cheapest they have ever been right now, 1 tb for around $100 and it's in m.2 form factor so no wires just stick into the motherboard and faster than SATA
How much data can be stored in our brain?
Average human: A lot
Me: -76kb
But you remembered English. So I'd say at least +67kb
Bro you in every video i watch
The creation of of God will always amaze me!
"back of the envelope math" i love it lol
I've always loved thinking through this thought experiment. The brain is a finite volume, so it can only store a finite amount of information, which means that you could theoretically 'fill up' your brain at some point. How long would you have to live for that to happen? What happens when a full brain tries to learn something new? How does it decide what to 'forget'?
Never will get full the brain of a Very healthy 85 year old male who has been doing labor his entire life can recall a lot of odd jobs he did and still recall all the tools he used his entire life , he may not recall what he had for dinner 4 days ago . that kind of info is useless , but cooking a meal will be right at hand even if it wa something he had not cooked in 30 years. songs from 1934 to 2019 movies tv shows , all that is in the thought process . The Brain is a wonderful .
I remember when I was a kid, having MBs on your harddrive was impressive. As a teenager, it was all about GBs, and now it's been TBs for quite a few years.
I wonder how many more iterations I'll see in my lifetime.
And back then people were asking the same question. The answer was usually something like 10s of MBs.
Assuming Moore's Law holds out, quite a bit.
I'm old enough to remember when having 100 MB on a hard drive you could hold in 1 hand was pretty impressive. Sealed hard drives for minicomputers could get to a gig or so, but took 2 people to pick up. Drives with dismountable disk packs were about the size of a small washing machine & held about 350 MB, give or take.
@@svenmorgenstern9506 Moore's law is coming to it's limit. It's becoming physically impossible to increase the number of transistors on CPUs because in good modern CPUs the width of conductors between the trasistors is something like 9 conductor ATOMS! It's insane. Now we'll just have to wait for quamtum computers or something to compleatly break the law
Sven Morgenstern I started with 8” floppy drives and a reel to reel tape storage system. Then moved onto cassette tape for storage. That was revolutionary.
The fact that they can store gigs on something literally the size of a stamp still boggles my mind. I mean I understand it. Its just the fact that we figured it out and can mass produce millions of them for next to nothing is what gets me. We're living in star trek. Lol
The brain is extreeeemelyyy efficient. If anything, I would think our brain is like a quantum computer.
what a great question and answer! i loved it
Thanks Olivia, always nice to see you.
This doesn't even take into account for dreams which are miraculous to me. While we sleep our minds are creating people, places, events that can feel very real, yet may have never actually occurred. It really blows my mind.
Good to know.
Ayyy ryback. It's time to feed your brain. Feed me more.. ahhhh...
That was a good approximation for a thought experiment. Indeed we can't think of brain as just hard drive as the brain isn't just a static storage but act as an operating system. Synapse can be thought as a logical gate that can have 26 states to be available to process schedule compute.
love this woman! whenever people love what they do they make you love it too! Brains are Waaayyyy cooler than computers though, they not only store memory, they also store awareness and make our whole bodies function!
Quagmire: A giggity-byte!
LOL
Two things pop into mind:
Computers have both storage and memory. Brains don't have such a neat distinguish between the two, but I think it's safe to assume all states of all synapses aren't available for storing data.
Datastorage and processing time are exchangable: the most intuitive example for me is prime numbers: I don't remember all primes smaller than 50, yet I can figure them out in my head. Neural network machine learning can be used to make simulations or predictions, which othervice would need huge datasets or a lot of processing power. Yet a neural network can from much smaller amount of variables return "close enough" results on wide variety of cituation, remembering only fraction of the data, and using only fraction of the processing power.
I think it's safe to say our brains can return much larger sets of data than could be stored in bits in them, and the answer isn't in how many bits each neuron can hold. But similiarly our brain does a lot of things like seeing, hearing, feeling and pattern recognition that simply can't be exchanged or considered asnstored data, even if it takes away the same resources.
Better question, why can't some people store any information?
der Jakob I think you have to ask a more specific question. Because there are different types of information and regions of our brain are specialized for processing different information. Everyone that has been born can store information in their brain. The problems come in how the brain interprets it, if it interprets it at all, and how we respond consequently.
That actually is a better question lol nice. Amnesia and other memory related ailments aren't really well understood
Their sata connector broke
@@moki2093 I think their logic gate has malfunctioned
Bad sectors or firmware.
*Megamind: hold my beer*
Megamind: Hold my brain
Me : trys to delete cache data
Also me : forgot my homework
I can hold a solid 3-4MB at most, its also easily corruptable
150 TB to zero real quick when you got a mental block.
If "thousands" is assumed to be 2,000, would the total bytes not be approximately 1.7 petabytes? That's what I'm getting in my head
Damn, the human brain can be pretty OP.
Enough to forget that I have homework
I know a more than a few people with "spacious" brains, lots of space lol. ;~)
The problem is that the static model of storage doesn’t map to our dynamic memory. Our memories are fluid and each recall of memory changes the synaptic weight of the response, so linear analogies don’t apply.
It's big brain time, shibes have the biggest brain
And just like hard drives, some people's heads are filled with helium. Checks out.
Better question.
How much datass can them pants store?
Kek
Better question.
Can we see those bitties?
@@ChiefKapui those 2 killa bitties
@@NoahNobody Awe man, I was sure they were mega bitties 🤣
HAH
Imagine a future when instead of having a usb youll have a piece of brain in a jar.
We’re going to need this when we upload our memories to the computer that computer will have to convert the natural memories into computer storage
I was just wondering this, so awesome 😍😎
I once heard that our brains can store the same amount of data as a VCR running continuously for 200 years.
My brain can store about 3 bytes.
Eating, Sleeping, Going to the toilet
And of course it gets even more complicated by the fact that synapses aren't the only way neurons store information! Neurotransmitters from one synapse can float through interstitial fluid to reach nearby synapses, or even nonsynaptic receptors, allowing for wildly complex analog data transmission.
Uni starts in 2 days and I've got myself so panicked I'm convinced I'm incapable of learning more lmao
"I can carry nearly 80 gigs of data in my head"
Johnny Mnemonic
Instead of base 2, we have at least base 26. We are just scratching the surface to understanding the true mechanics and potential power of our brains.
Some say we have 2.5 petabytes (2500 terabytes)
I thought the same thing, but after taking another look into it, I'm sure I was just thinking about DNA storage. Look into it. The amount of information that can be stored in a gram of DNA is enormous.
I thought there was more than just synaptic strength/state believed to be a part of memory. The patterns of firing neurons/synapses also differentiate their usage. Which would add even more permutations/complexity to memory storage.
Our brains are all like broken hard drives that only run in data recovery mode. If we're lucky and it was just yesterday that we emptied our recycling bin we might be able to get the majority of that important message back, but chances are we'll misremember it.
Brain seems to overlap information on same set of neurons. So memory retrieval becomes corrupt and we remember unintended extra things when trying to consciously remember something.
150 Terabytes and all I can do is remember memes than terminologies.
uwu
So I have room for 15 more homework folders in my brain
After taking some pain meds, I am operating in safe mode at the moment.
Biologist: By computer standards, you are a marvel. You have virtually unlimited potential and space for storing information with your brain.
Me: [focuses on only all the bad memories and everything I ever got wrong] D=
Next video: How many Ghz speed does our brain have.
Our brains’ tick rate is about 100Hz, so 0.0000001 GHz
It’s just massively parallelized
This may not be entirely accurate (or completely wrong just to be on the safe side) but half the computation is done by the universe (the space-time portion..the quantum mechanics) and the other half of it by the brain itself.
Once the cell (neuron) grows a compatible-with-the-universe chemical or atomic shape (you can think of it as a socket/plug) then the tethering event happens and a connection is made with said universe however this isn't computation just yet (just like how establishing an internet connection with servers is not doing any meaningful computation just yet since knowledge from such server is not being accessed as of yet). Once you get the atoms,chemicals moving/interacting only then the computation begins. It's still a mystery what's going on the universe side of things but that would not be necessary to know just as long as you get the correct structures built and operating with other structures...from then on out it does the rest naturally.
So in terms of GHZ it's how many atoms (and or subatomic particles if we advance there later on) can you squeeze inside the cranium and arrange them for computation. But if it's raw computation power one seeks then you can simply offload computation to server farms so you won't have to unnecessarily burden your brain with that to keep adding modules etc.
Thanks. Now I’m going to use my brain for my computer now.
I'd like to see an episode on the brain's equivalence of 'working memory' or RAM, compared to the human brain. It seems to me that would be more of a sign of intelligence than anything else.
i dont shop for computers, i shop for parts and build my own
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This means that our brain is kind of like a quantum computer? (For example a byte in a quantum computer can be not just 0 or 1 but, it can be in-between.)
Conclusion: our synapses are literally QUANTUM bits
I personally believe it goes way deeper. Like how many synapses are used to reprocess memories for access, compare current states to memorized ones, etc.
So i think storage wise, significantly less.
Another good video though. :)
now the question is, how many bits does 1 minute of memory take up?
While I don't have an eidetic memory, I remember a good deal about almost every year in my life with the earliest somewhere between age 2 and 3. I still remember getting a diaper change, lying down in my crib staring upwards at the rails, and drinking baby formula from a bottle including the taste and its texture. I'm 39 now, but all of it is as fresh as yesterday which makes forgetting so damn difficult.
How much data can brain store?
-Yes
I can’t even remember what I did three days ago
"this is more of an educated wild guess" the prefect definition of science. It's not about absolute truth, it's the process by which we come to conclusions leading to a stack of "educated wild guesses". SCIENCE!
No, it's an educated wild guess because it is:
1- Cutting edge.
2- Trying to compare 2 very different systems.
Trying a more established theory, and you'll get better answers.
Try a mathematical theory, and you'll get %100 definite answers %100 of the time.
Just to wonder how brain file formats work and look like and also size per type of data.
I don’t think our brains really store so much as construct and reconstruct a lot of the “data” that we think is up there. We might store some of the most basic building blocks of cognition the way a hard drive does, things like concepts, and words. But for things like memories of all kinds I think our brains reconstruct these each time we try to recall them. Which is why memory is so fallible and organic.
i wanna know how big the ram is and what the clock speed would he and if we even have cores tbh
it doesnt matter how much you can store, the thing is how much you can ACCESS within a second.