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Brain Capacity?

SamNets samnets at aol.com
Fri Mar 14 21:49:36 EST 1997


Guys, guys!
Has anybody heard of quantum optical holography, which allows storage of 4
terabytes of data in a cubic inch?  [A product of old Bell Labs].
Given that that figure does not consider compression techniques, context
sensitive recall, or the multiple-messenger/multiple-receptor
representation format of the brain (recall that NITRIC OXIDE is a "second
messenger"!), how can we effectively estimate storage capacity of brain? 
Go back to K. Pribram's Languages of the Brain (1971) or Brain and
Perception (1991), then begin again.
Sam Leven
Scientific Cybernetics, Inc.



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