how much storage and data processing capacity does the brain posses?

Question

If it were able to be quantified in terms of binary data (bytes), how much storage capacity does the normal adult human brain possess? Are we talking gigabytes? Terabytes?

And in terms of input/output (sensory and motor nerve impulses), what’s the bandwidth?

Processing speed in MHz?

In: Biology

Answer 1

These terms apply to digital systems like a computer and don’t really make any sense when used to describe the brain which works completely differently. Nobody can provide a meaningful answer to this question because it’s comparing apples to oranges.