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   Ted Dunning to All   
   Re: Any articles on brain capacity   
   24 Mar 05 06:39:09   
   
   From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   Your comment is unsubstantiated by anything other than conjecture.   
      
   Keep in mind that this is net information flow to long-term memory that   
   we are talking about.  Even when you have a Mozart memorizing all the   
   parts to a mass, you may not have larger data rates than this due to   
   the enormous amount of compression that is know to occur when an expert   
   "chunks" their perceptions.   
      
   Nor does this imply that the brain would only contain 2 bits times n   
   seconds of data.  The internal represention is likely to be very rich   
   in order to allow efficient access with the relatively slow operations   
   possible with just a few layers of neuronal processing.   
      
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