X-Message-Number: 3027 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Message-ID: <> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 14:31:02 Subject: Re: An irreverent introdu From: (Brent Fox) -=> Quoting Merkle @parc.xerox.com*9 to All <=- M@> LIKE YOU HAD OTHER PLANS: M@> An Irreverent Introduction to Cryonics This sounds like an interesting presentation. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend due to time and distance. I wish more such events were held on the East Coast. |) BTW: I enjoyed your article, "The Molecular Repair of the Brain", which was featured in the past two issues of _Cryonics_. The figures given for the molecular composition of the brain, as well as the number of repair devices and time factors for repair were quite informative. Have you seen an estimation of what the total information storage capacity of the human brain is? In Carl Sagan's _Cosmos_, he stated that the brain has on the order of 10^14 neural connections in the cerebral cortex. Assuming each connection would be equivalent to 1 bit, taking this further would yield a capacity of 12.382Tb. 10^14 bits = 1.25*10^13 bytes = 12.382Tb Conventions used: 1024 bytes = 1 Kb 1048576 bytes = 1 Mb 1009511627776 bytes = 1 Tb I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this. Brent ... Life carries on. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 VQWK 6.20J Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3027