How much can your brain hold in terms of RAM and memory.?

Question

Can you talk in terms of how much memory we have and how can we add ram and stuff. I knnow its virtually impossible to put a limit...but kinda try

I know it DOEsn't but if we were to try to describe its amount

Answer 1

Medicine and Science today are based on AVERAGES. Your
"normal" temperature, ( until a recent survey changed it a bit) was 98.6 degrees. This was a study done in Europe in the 60's, and
it AVERAGED 6000 people. The data was bell graphed, so that only the data in the centre ( the top of the bell shape ) was used, and as, in ALL good science and medicine, all the data on the bottom
sides flaring out at the base of the " bell " shape, were thrown in the garbage.... Thus, people have come into a hospital, with plus or minus a few degrees in temperature, and have been killed by doctors who bathe them in ice or heat them up, to make them " NORMAL " ( average at its best ) ( their actual normal temperature was not 98.6 ... )
The brain, and all the text book information on the brain, is, in the same way " AVERAGE " and all brain studies that have any data that isnt at the top of the bell graph, are thrown in the garbage, so that most of the " learned " (pronounced learn - ED ) opinions come from textbooks filled with only data that matches the "AVERAGE". All other data is thrown in the garbage...

There is a group of people who have a rare condition that the blood vessels in the neck feeding the center of the brain are not working, and the entire center of their brains is just a dead jelly.
The blood vessels in the skin around the skull feeds the brain
for about 1/4 or 1/2 and inch next to the outside skull.
These people only have 5 or 10% of their brain. Anyone who states that "this section of the brain controls the foot - That section of the brain controls memory, etc. etc. ( right out of the text book ) would be wrong, because these sections of the brain do not even exist.
The people with this condition have higher than normal memory, higher than normal IQ, higher than normal motor skills etc. and yet only have a tiny section of the "AVERAGE " brain.
Then, consider people who can read an entire Encyclopedia, and
tell you verbatim, what is on every single page, with no effort....
Are they "average"? Are they freaks? or are they just lucky enough, over thousands of years of disease, famine, radioactivity ( naturally occuring radiation which destroys DNA ),
war, pestilance, plague, alcolhol, and other factors that cause mutation of DNA passed on from generation to generation, to actually get a GOOD copy of the DNA needed to have " NORMAL " memory ? I think the latter. I think most " AVERAGE " people, with average eyesight ( there are a handfull of people, much sought after by the CIA, NSA, FBI as kids, who can see the writing on the label of a football flying through the air in a football game, FROM their seats positions in the stadium ), average memory, average strength, etc. are the result of thousands of years of DNA deterioration and degradation. In fact, it is lucky, as a species, that we have gotten as far as we have.
I believe that we all should be able to see 1000/20, run as fast as horse, memorize an entire encyclopedia, be immune to ALL sicknesses and diseases, and lift 5 times our own weight, etc. etc. and there are examples of people who can do these things. They are considered freaks, but in fact, we are.
SO, in answer to your question, how much information can we store, the answer would be HUGE amounts, if we worked correctly in the first place. ( which most of us do not ).
The HUMAN DNA is being completely listed. There are only a few people done, and it will take thousands of listings, BUT, when this is done, the characteristics, such as MEMORY, or ability to run as fast as a horse, or see thousands of feet, etc. will all be discovered. I know people who have NEVER been sick in their lives, nor had a headache, nor, seen a doctor for any problem.
These people are ( ABnormal, and in AVERAGE studies, would have the data thrown in the garbage ) the key to understanding how we work, - not the " average " people that science and medicine is based on....

If I haven't bored you death yet,...

You can take smart drugs, ( common now in Smart bars where healthy, brain enhancing drinks are served instead of mind numbing alcohol ), and do mental exercises to increase your memory capacity.
Since we only use the tiniest amount of the " MEMORY " capacity that is potentially there ( as proven by people who can memorize an Encyclopedia easily ), we have a long way to go to put back the corrupted DNA to regain the vast potential.
It is stated that we STORE every single moment, second
by second, of our entire life, - we just can't ACCESS it under normal conditions. ( corrupted DNA ).
In the movie Johnny Memonic, ( in the future sometime ) we have
discovered how to tap into the true capability of the brain, to
store and retrive information, and it is measured in Gigabytes of
raw data, and is probably accurate. If you multiply the brain
cells and synapse of a particularly healthy person you easily
get gigabytes - depending on how many are actually used for
memory itself, and at the moment, medicine and science would
not have any complete answers, and the subject is highly debated.... We really do not have a clue how the brain is divided or utilized, and all "facts" on the subject are " average, Guesses ".
Read 40 pages of a telephone book, close the cover, and then try to write down all 40 pages.... While rainman or a few people working for the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc are capable of this, most of us
ordinary slobs would not get through the first page.... sorry,
but in " Practical" " AVERAGE" terms today, you would be lucky
to get accurate data held on a single 3 1/4 inch 1.44 meg floppy !

The potential, once we fugure out how the brain really works, is HUGE. You would become VEE GER ( Star Trek, the motion Picture, 1 ) and everything you ever experienced would be accessible. Wow.
hope this answers some questions, and gives you an idea what is involved in the answer...

Answer 2

No you can't talk about the way your brain works in terms of RAM etc. Most computers use linear processing, i.e. they think in a straight line. Your brain works as more of a parallel processor, instead of one line of thought there are many strands of thought that are continually weaving amongst each other and interacting. It's much more complicated but also more efficient at higher levels of thought. Some parallel computers like the quantum computer are now being built but they are generally very specialised and still can't emulate the level of parallel thought that goes on in your head.
RAM refers to the discretisation of memory. It is digital memory. Nowadays people think that digital is the be all and end all of technology as it is always flashed around as a term and made a big deal of. Your mind doesn't think digitally so it can't be chunked up in terms of however many bytes. It's better described as having a certain amount of litres available. How much stuff that fits in will depend on how small you can squeeze each little bit of memory without getting it mushed up with the other bits of memory you put in.
So you don't really add RAM to your mind. But by "exercising" it you can squeeze each little bit of memory so as to be able to fit more. You'll find that in general it can fit more than a lifetime of sensory input.

Answer 3

The "virtually impossible limit" comes from the fact that we can think abstractly. You can program a computer to play Go (a board game, very complex, the Japanese equivalent of Chess), and the computer will lose to a Go Master every time. You can program a computer to play Chess and a lot of the time it will win against a Chess Master. The difference? Go is more abstract. So, to answer your question, it doesn't matter how many gigabytes of memory a computer has, it doesn't have any common sense. So far, "artificial intelligence" is still a pipe dream. Computers are stupid -- garbage in, garbage out.

Answer 4

Well the average human brain can hold terabytes of information so I'm assuming that your short term memory would be in the region of Gigabytes. It's a hard one to define.

Answer 5

the human brain, as has been stated by you and by others ad nauseum, is not analagous to RAM, but in the spirit of your question, i think this is the best way to answer it.

the human brain has about 100 billion neurons-so if you looked at that as being equal to the amount of RAM-then the answer would be 100 gig.

on average, the adult human brain has 100 trillion connections (once again, not analagous to RAM, but for the spirit of the q), so if you looked at those, then it would be 100,000 gig.

of course, the brain does not work like RAM, but another way to think about this is that the brain is both the processor AND the memory AND has a bunch of peripherals connected to it.

Answer 6

Probably a couple of MB. Think about it.. 64 MB of RAM can hold thousands of numbers/variables. There's no way anyone can remember that many numbers, short term. Long-term though (which can be compared to the HDD) is probably around 1 TB.

Answer 7

obviously this is comparing apples to oranges, but if you're going to compare the two, I guess you would have to think in terms of number values, as computers do. How many 8 digit number combinations can you remember without forgeting the first set, and how quickly can you recall any or all of the sets in any random order.

...It's not looking so good for the brain.

as far as adding RAM, you're allready maxed out, but you haven't installed the "software" to use all of it.

Answer 8

Your brain does not hold memory in terms of ram (that is a computer term that stands for "random access memory.") Ram referes to computers only. GEEZ!

Answer 9

i know youre just using a metaphor

long term memory has no limit but your short term memory does...you can only hold 5 - 7 thoughts in your short term memory

hope that helps

Answer 10

Difficult to say, as some scientist say average humans only use 10% of the capacity, even in 10% people do a lot of things. I heard the rich people are able to use about 15% or more of their capacity.