• Question: How many GB do you think a brain could hold?

    Asked by to Ian on 21 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ian Simpson answered on 21 Jun 2014:


      Something I’ve definitely wondered. The ball-park “guess-timate” which is what it is because we don’t really know how efficiently (or exactly how) the brain stores information is 2.5 petabytes. So about 2.5 million GB ! Enough for quite a bit of stuff 😀

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