nutty at brain (Madhusudan Natarajan) writes:
>Well, even if the brain is analog, the information capacity can be
>measured in bits so to speak. If we then say that the brain's storage
>capacity is X megabytes, then we can rationalize this to be an equivalent
>statement to "the brain has enough space to store the same amount of
>information that a hard disk with a X Mb capcity can store".
>The brain being analog would store information differently but the
>capacity can be measured in any form nevertheless. Just a case of scaling
>units. Of course the anlog to digital translation would imply a higher
>scaling factor of say a magnitude of order higher.
One of the fascinating features of the human brain is that there
is no apparent maximum amount of information that can be stored.
People learn throughout their entire lifetimes, and that learning
keeps getting stored in some fashion. There are retrieval problems,
but it's all in there.
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Will Nelson
Solstice Software Products
SunSoft
wnelson at dna.eng.sun.com
