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From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt)
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Subject: Re: A Quick Question
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:19:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 15:19:57 1984
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This is not a simple issue.  No one has conclusively demonstrated a limit
to the long term storage capacity of the human brain ("you learn something
new every day!").  I have heard one estimate that the information processing
capacity of a single neuron approaches that of a Cray-1, and there are
10^12 neurons in the human brain...