how much RAM does the human brain have?

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#1 Lazyplayer-187
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if the human brain had RAM how much would it have?

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#2 darkmistx
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64Kb

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#3 Shad0ki11
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Not enough.

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#4 links136
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I believe the fastest supercomputer today is around 1/1000th the power of the brian. Just going by memory though.

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#5 RadBooley
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640KB. It's enough for everybody.

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#6 Cherokee_Jack
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I'd think that all the 'memory' would be RAM.
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#7 GenTom
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I don't think the brain works in the same was as a computer.. with GPU's/Cpu's/RAM/Mobo's etc. lol.
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#8 AirGuitarist87
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The human brain can hold about 7 blocks of information at a time, in it's short term memory. So considering the amount of detail these bits of information will be in, I'd say about 70GB of RAM. :P
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#9 gameie1994
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Id say 1 Terrabyte of RAM, if comparing Short term memory( Which RAM is literily) to long term memory

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#10 Jekken6
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50GB of GDDR3 at1064MhZ

our GPU is 4 Nvidia GTX295s in SLI on a widescreen 2560x1600 resolution monitor.

I'm not sure about everything else, though

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#11 aliblabla2007
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Not all people have the same memory capacity. ;)
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#12 Brainkiller05
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I'd have about 1mb :( I suck
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#13 samuraiguns
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Good Question, I would have to say I am running on 25GB of DDR3 1066MHz of RAM.

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#14 Jekken6
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Good Question, I would have to say I am running on 25GB of DDR3 1066MHz of RAM.

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What are the rest of your specs? Like motherboard, GPU,CPU, monitor,etc.

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#15 samuraiguns
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[QUOTE="samuraiguns"]

Good Question, I would have to say I am running on 25GB of DDR3 1066MHz of RAM.

Jekken6

What are the rest of your specs? Like motherboard, GPU,CPU, monitor,etc.

  • CRT monitor 10"; I have poor vision
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#16 Brainkiller05
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[QUOTE="Jekken6"]

[QUOTE="samuraiguns"]

Good Question, I would have to say I am running on 25GB of DDR3 1066MHz of RAM.

samuraiguns

What are the rest of your specs? Like motherboard, GPU,CPU, monitor,etc.

  • CRT monitor 10"; I have poor vision
  • Mobo HearLung Brand
  • GPU Pancreas 3000 GDDR5 1GB
  • CPU AMD Phenom II X4 5.9 Ghz

Interesting, here's me: - 19" Widescreen - Pentium 4 3.0ghz - 1mb ram - 6600GT (4xAA, 0xAF)
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#17 links136
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[QUOTE="samuraiguns"]

[QUOTE="Jekken6"]

What are the rest of your specs? Like motherboard, GPU,CPU, monitor,etc.

Brainkiller05

  • CRT monitor 10"; I have poor vision
  • Mobo HearLung Brand
  • GPU Pancreas 3000 GDDR5 1GB
  • CPU AMD Phenom II X4 5.9 Ghz

Interesting, here's me: - 19" Widescreen - Pentium 4 3.0ghz - 1mb ram - 6600GT (4xAA, 0xAF)

I'm a solid gold tower brimmering with diamonds and silk with nothing on the inside

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Dunno. I wonder what the speed is.
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#19 monkeyd_93
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the full pi number, yes every single digit
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#20 horgen  Moderator
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the full pi number, yes every single digitmonkeyd_93
bit or bytes? And is B/b only or kb, mb, gb, tb?
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#21 RiseAgainst12
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An awful lot..

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#22 manicfoot
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How much brain does your PC have? :shock:

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Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

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Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

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How are you getting that!? i get slowdown everytime there is lots happening.. i think i need to upgrade my brain.
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Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

ZuluEcho14
Experiencing slowdowns would be hilarious and weird.
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#26 links136
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[QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"]

Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

horgen123

Experiencing slowdowns would be hilarious and weird.

its called pot

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I believe the fastest supercomputer today is around 1/1000th the power of the brian. Just going by memory though.

links136
IBM's supermachines emulated a mouses brain... for 3 seconds, before it went kapoof with load
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#28 fastesttruck
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so few that it can't even open up a thing in notepad. the human brain is a sad little thing most times. Very few have ones that I'd call worth something. Such as the folk that make the PC's.
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#29 LoG-Sacrament
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i have a feeling it would be a junker.

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#30 iam2green
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i would say like 512mb, i would say m gpu was like a 7900 256mb, maybe a Pentium 4.
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#31 twilightpanda
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i would say 1 bit. lol

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#32 rb2610
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Do people with a photographic memory have a high VRAM?
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#33 DaBrainz
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1.21 gigabytes

Marty do you know what this means?

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#34 links136
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it appears people really underestimate the power of the brain, or just being really sarcastic.

The brain has the equivilant of about 100 million megabytes of memory.

just because a computer can do calculations much faster than we can doesn't mean its more powerful. Remember, computers don't have to worry about things like senses, movement and other body functions.

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#35 Forumposter
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32 MB RAM! the one and only computer that wont ever get old! :O my brain pwns
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#36 comp_atkins
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few yottabytes? some of it dram some of it sram. obvisouly volitle.

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[QUOTE="samuraiguns"]

[QUOTE="Jekken6"]

What are the rest of your specs? Like motherboard, GPU,CPU, monitor,etc.

Brainkiller05

  • CRT monitor 10"; I have poor vision
  • Mobo HearLung Brand
  • GPU Pancreas 3000 GDDR5 1GB
  • CPU AMD Phenom II X4 5.9 Ghz

Interesting, here's me: - 19" Widescreen - Pentium 4 3.0ghz - 1mb ram - 6600GT (4xAA, 0xAF)

Only nerds would start to do this. :P

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#38 -starman-
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this may just be the nerdiest thread of the day.

i approve.

i think we have various levels of "memory"...

so, things we use every day (how to walk, for example) would be on our desktop,

things we need occassionally (how to dance, perhaps) would be in a folder,

and things that we need rarely (what happens when a star dies, for example) are stored in those folders that are tucked away in a folder within a folder within a folder named "Stuff You'll Probably Never Need to Know But Let's Hang Onto Anyway."

as far as total RAM... probably a lot more than we think... a Terabyte is my guess.

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#39 Rocky32189
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You're comparing two completely different things.
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[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"][QUOTE="samuraiguns"]

  • CRT monitor 10"; I have poor vision
  • Mobo HearLung Brand
  • GPU Pancreas 3000 GDDR5 1GB
  • CPU AMD Phenom II X4 5.9 Ghz

CBR600-RR

Interesting, here's me: - 19" Widescreen - Pentium 4 3.0ghz - 1mb ram - 6600GT (4xAA, 0xAF)

Only nerds would start to do this. :P

its geeks, not nerds :|
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#41 loco145
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About 8-14 symbols.

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#42 CBR600-RR
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[QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"] Interesting, here's me: - 19" Widescreen - Pentium 4 3.0ghz - 1mb ram - 6600GT (4xAA, 0xAF)GTR2addict

Only nerds would start to do this. :P

its geeks, not nerds :|

They're just the same thing to me...

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[QUOTE="RiseAgainst12"][QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"]

Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

How are you getting that!? i get slowdown everytime there is lots happening.. i think i need to upgrade my brain.

Defrag.
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[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="RiseAgainst12"][QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"]

Enough to play "Real Life" at 60 fps with everything maxed out and no slowdowns.

How are you getting that!? i get slowdown everytime there is lots happening.. i think i need to upgrade my brain.

Defrag.

I need to do a defrag 2 lol and a reformat
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#45 htekemerald
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Well lets see.

8 numbers, ones and zeros,(bits) is one byte

1000 of these is one kiliobyte (8000 ones and zeros)

1 000 000 bytes is one megabyte (8 million ones and zeros)

1 000 000 000 bytes is one gigabyte (8 Billion ones and zeros)

1 000 000 000 000 bytes is one terabyte (8 Trillion ones and zeros)

So the simple way to fine out is my seeing how long of a chain of randomly assorted ones and zeros you can remember

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#46 links136
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Well lets see.

8 numbers, ones and zeros,(bits) is one byte

1000 of these is one kiliobyte (8000 ones and zeros)

1 000 000 bytes is one megabyte (8 million ones and zeros)

1 000 000 000 bytes is one gigabyte (8 Billion ones and zeros)

1 000 000 000 000 bytes is one terabyte (8 Trillion ones and zeros)

So the simple way to fine out is my seeing how long of a chain of randomly assorted ones and zeros you can remember

htekemerald

huh? computers don't have to worry about things like senses, movement and bodily functions so thats a pretty bad way to compare.

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I don't think the brain works in the same was as a computer.. with GPU's/Cpu's/RAM/Mobo's etc. lol.GenTom
Not even close :) We have high access times but also high data loss. Computers generally don't forget things over time, remember things sometimes and not others, and produce different results on different days.
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#48 links136
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[QUOTE="GenTom"]I don't think the brain works in the same was as a computer.. with GPU's/Cpu's/RAM/Mobo's etc. lol.xaos
Not even close :) We have high access times but also high data loss. Computers generally don't forget things over time, remember things sometimes and not others, and produce different results on different days.

or periods

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#49 markop2003
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Hardly any, you can only remember things in your short time memory for about a minute which would be equivalent to RAM but it links with your long term memory (backing store) to make it more effective
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#50 markop2003
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[QUOTE="GenTom"]I don't think the brain works in the same was as a computer.. with GPU's/Cpu's/RAM/Mobo's etc. lol.xaos
Not even close :) We have high access times but also high data loss. Computers generally don't forget things over time, remember things sometimes and not others, and produce different results on different days.

From what i've heard when something is in your long term memory it's in there forever but like a computer the more you use it the faster the access times (prefetch)