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How much information can a human brain store? If we treat them like computers, one estimate is that they can hold 55 million ebooks worth of information. But why restrict ourselves to biology? If you had the right technology, how much information could you pack inside a human head?
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How much information can a human brain store? If we treat them like computers, one estimate is that they can hold 55 million ebooks worth of information. But why restrict ourselves to biology? If you had the right technology, how much information could you pack inside a human head?
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