23 Jan 2020

What is the Storage Capacity of Human Brain | How Much our Brain Can Store?

The Storage capacity of human brain in gigabytes. This video discusses, what is the storage capacity of human brain? Is there a physical limit to the amount of information it can Store?
Let me tell you, that the storage capacity of human brain is extremely large. So you don't have to worry about running out of space in your lifetime.
There are about 1 billion neurons in the human brain. Each neuron forms about 1000 connections to other neurons, that results in more than a trillion connections.
If there were no connections, we might have only a few gigabytes of storage space.
Running out of space would be a problem if each neuron could only help store a single memory.
But after combining, each neuron can help with many memories at a time. Because of this, the storage capacity of human brain increases exponentially.
This storage of brain would be enough to hold nearly 3 million hours of TV shows!!!. In other words, we can say, if our brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, then to completely use that storage you need to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years. That's huge amount of storage space.

Storage Capacity of Human Brain Video

 

Now let's talk about this amount of storage space in terms of gigabytes. It is close to around a  million gigabytes which is equal to 2.5 petabytes.
it is interesting to note that, certain memories take up more space as they involve more details while some information is not even worth remembering in the first place. Some memories are forgotten and hence they free up space.
So you can put as much information as you want in your brain without worrying about its storage capacity, but remember to keep good memories not bad ones.



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1 comment:

Ramakant Vashistha said...

Surprised to know the huge storage capacity of human brain!!!

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