Re: Uploaded memories

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 01:25:31 -0600

Bekenstein bound: One megabyte per hydrogen atom.

Even if you can only store one byte per hundred atoms, this still gives you around one million billion megabytes per gram. I wouldn't expect that the human brain holds more than a thousand billion megabytes of data, and a mere billion megabytes is more likely.

There's plenty of room at the bottom.
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