How Many Gigabytes Of Memory Does Your Brain Hold?

Mystery Hour Question

If your brain was like a computer hard drive, how much capacity would it have in gigabytes?

Andy, Hammersmith

Answer

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Name: Tom, Orpington

Qualification: First class degree in Computer Systems and Networking

Answer: Approximately 1,000 Terabytes. If you calculate the number of neurons in the brain and appropriate them to bits, you reach that figure. That’s around 1,000,000 GB.