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

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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?

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It’s never been an agreed upon, definite amount. With each year that passes giving humans more access to knowledge at an easier rate, and with the public school teaching degrading slowly per generation, the modern human both is dumber and smarter than previous generations.

It would be in terabytes, last time I checked that was agreed upon, but how many and how fast we aren’t sure yet. Every person is different as well and some people ARE dumber or smarter naturally, this is a problem when trying to find these values.

We also actually process pretty slow compared to a lot of other animals let alone a computer or dear lord, a quantum computer, so our processing speed actually would be pretty slow. Wish I could give more definite answers like numbers or proof, but we just aren’t at a point where we have consistent data, not yet.

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