From a strictly scientific point of view, the memory capacity of the human brain cannot be compared with that of a PC. This is so, above all, because from a technical point of view the software and hardware of both machines are organized in very different ways. While in a computer, information is physically stored on a hard drive in sequences of zeros and ones , in the brain the memory capacity is stored in different places, following a pattern of neural networks . However, neurologists say that our head stores more gigabytes than the most powerful computer can accommodate. Just think that we have about 100,000 million neurons , each of which makes up to 50,000 contacts with its neighboring cells.
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