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Is it Possible to Learn So Much Your Brain Gets ‘Full’?

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Northwestern psychology Prof. Paul Reber answers in Scientific American. Excerpt:

The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

except math. math is dense. it’s not possible to hold much of that. stuff.

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    hold the phone…the answer is actually yes? just limited by the age of life expectancy?!
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    Well, there goes that excuse.
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    In every science article is a story.
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    so it’s ok that i know all the words to Baby Got Back and all those old *NSYNC and BSB albums? whew.
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    This is awesome. I love that they compare the human brain to technology.
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