Has anyone actually worked out or took a guess at what the human brains memory capacity is?

I mean like, if you were to measure how many bytes of information the human brain could hold.





Has anyone worked it out or took a guess?





I'm guessing for even simple animals it'd be pretty high cos even ones that have short memories, they still have to have the info to function every system in their body.|||Its likely somewhere between the total number of neurons and the total number of synapses. You also need to define what a memory is, because a single memory probably involved more than a single neuron or single synapse.|||People may have made guesses, but it is really pointless. There is no way to quantify how much of anyone's brain is taken up by a memory, or information or anything else for that matter. Does remembering your phone number take up more or less space than the memory of a 3-day trip to Disneyland? It would seem that the memory of a 3 day trip would take up more "room" than one phone number, but we cannot figure that out.





The analogy between computer memory or hard drive space, and the human brain can be useful for illustration purposes, but it is useless as a functional description. We simply do not know how the brain stores things.