Caprica (extremely minor spoiler)

[lunarpollen]

No, not a review or anything. I mean, the series pilot is great and I highly recommend seeing it. It was excellent except for one really blaring, bizarre, and ridiculous notion, that the capacity of the human brain is roughly equivalent to 300 megabytes.

The human brain contains roughly 300 megabytes of information. Not much when you get right

Comments

[lunarpollen]

That's true, but I think that touches on processor stuff, and then the roosting of a "soul" into the whole thing (presumably that part--the meddling of the unseen ancient "cylon god" entity [perhaps a massive AI that achieved powerful and sentience, immortality, and near omnipresence thousands of years ago??] will be explored during the series itself

[fomhoire]

No mention of processing speed.

For some people I think 8Mhz and about 4 MB is about right. Especially the ones that drive white pickups.

[lunarpollen]

Yeah, the processor part is definitely the missing element.

ha, 4 MB is like the equivalent to one moderately compressed mp3 song...

[noisepimp]

Could be worse.

Could be "kiloquads."

[coma_chrysalis]

god your post was so hot. i think that it is most-likely more than 1,000 terabytes, with our ability to process constant streams of information in such high 3-demintional resolution and our ability to process molecules in the air in order to determine smell and also the calculations we make when we express emotions, i imagine the ability to feel and interpret emotions really eats a lot of memory and does a number on our processing capabilities. I wonder what the average required amount of information storage is used in todays androids?

[lunarpollen]

heheheee

http://video.syfy.com/shows/caprica/video_blogs_2/take-me-away-part-2--caprica/v1209437

they just redubbed it for the eventual DVD release to say 100 terabyes which is closer to realistic than 300 megabytes