>>12053558>effectively infiniteX to doubt
we only have on the order of ~100 billion neurons, and each is apparently able to make at best ~1000 connections
so that means about 100 trillion connections of some sort can be made amongst neurons
if each of those connections somehow stores one informational bit of a memory, that means the upper limit of computational information that can be stored in the brain (if all of it is used for storage) is only 100 Terabytes
this is probably wrong,and there are questions of whether neurons can fire at different intensities to store multiple bits at a time and hold different memories in different firing patterns across all their connections with eachother,
but still I think we forget how much we tend to forget
our conscious mind and conscious memory can be thought of simply as a record of our attention both what we focus on internally and externally, when this is combined with a sense of self it can be very convincing that we are one person
that record of attention is so easily forgotten, like how often can you remember what you did on any given day last January?
memory does also seem to be divisible into the five senses as a smell or taste can cause you to remember a feeling
and not to mention motor memory
there is of course a thermal limit to the information that can be stored in the amount of mass the brain has, but I feel like we only hope that natural selection that shaped it gave it an efficiency that will let us live to ages like 300 and 1000 without getting alzheimers or relying on an external harddrive for our memories
