Is there any hard-coded memory capacity of our brain?

Question

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

Answer 1

I think the limit vary on each person since we don’t have the same amount of neurons, same perception of reality, same creativity type… But it has to be limit because we use cells for processing, limited cells quantity mean limited processing. Also I’m pretty sure long and short term memory help flushing data from the brain or keeping it, abstraction works as some kind of compression…. So it also kind of self cleans itself and this is why it’s important to sleep, because a lot of that cleaning process happens at that time.