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To: bobdsmith

My calculation was incorrect. IIRC, a gigabyte is a billion bytes. So at 1 kb per brain cell you would need 15,000 gigabytes of data just to store all the connections between brain cells. If you could compress this data down to 100 bytes per cell through some kind of algorithm, then you'd need 1,500 gigabytes of data to store brain cell connections.


279 posted on 01/14/2006 11:35:44 AM PST by defenderSD (¤¤ In a battle of wits against a FReeper, the typical liberal is unarmed. ¤¤)
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To: defenderSD
So at 1 kb per brain cell you would need 15,000 gigabytes of data just to store all the connections between brain cells.

You're assuming that the "connections" between braincells are predefined. They're not.
326 posted on 01/14/2006 3:21:10 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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