I am reading Max Tegmark’s book Life 3.0 where he has written
>Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download.
can we quantify our memory?
In: Biology
Tegmark arrived at that number because there are ~100 trillion synapses in the brain.
He’s saying to store the state of your brain it would require on the order 100’s of terabytes to store all of the synapses.
It’s hard to gauge the memory capacity of the brain because our memories don’t exist like memory in a computer. They’re encoded in neurons all over the brain. And
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