How Much Data Can Our Brains Store?

Computers are cool, and our brain is probably the coolest computer of all.

Siddhart Tripathi
Nov 5 · 3 min read

When you are shopping around for a new computer, one of the things you look for is the storage size of the hard drive — how much data can your computer can hold. So it’s fun to pose the same question about ourselves.

If our brains were computers…

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Siddhart Tripathi

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