This Cambridge Psychologist Thinks You Know Absolutely Nothing
The mind is merely a comparison organ.
1.2 kilograms isn’t heavy. The average 300-page book weighs about 15.6 ounces or 442 grams. 3 books would equate to 1.2kg. Yet 1.2kg is the average weight of the human brain. Weird isn’t it. Those 3 books worth of paper weigh the same amount as the human brain. That same brain, by the way, can hold up to 4.7 billion books worth of information. Let that settle for a minute. Something that weighs the same as 3 books, can store 1.56 billion times the information. My head hurts just thinking about it.
According to Professor Terry Sejnowski, our brains memory capacity is enormous.
“Our new measurements of the brain’s memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web.”
But yet, in a clever chap and psychologist Nick Chater is reimagining the mind to be something completely different, we’ll come on to that.
