Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!rbg From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.misc,net.junk Subject: Re: A Quick Question Message-ID: <9@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:19:57 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.9 Posted: Mon Jun 11 15:19:57 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 01:38:13 EDT References: <186@isrnix.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 5 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...