A few weeks ago I read a very interesting article that suggested that the brain’s storage capacity was 10 times larger than previously believed. Research suggested that our brain could store up to a Petabyte of information or in simpler words, a thousand times a terabyte (1024 gigabytes).
I had planned to publish the article in the next few days, but colleagues at Hypertextual They have published an article on the same topic, which I prefer to review and recommend:
The human brain is often considered one of the most powerful computers in the world—although it lacks chips and its internal mechanics are different from that of a conventional computer. From a functional and simplistic point of view, the brain of a computer is nothing more than an order processor: it collects information from outside or from the human body itself and executes orders on the different systems that make up the human body.
On the other hand, looking at it from a technical and potential point of view, the human brain has surprising technical characteristics that, if translated into the most common units within computing, surpass by a wide margin all the devices that surround us. .
In terms of memory, for example, various studies have for years placed the brain’s memory between ten and one hundred terabytes. However, some more recent studies are more optimistic and raise this figure to a petabyte, a really high figure – considering that a petabyte is a thousand times a terabyte.
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