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Title: Yodabytes
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Date: 2010-07-26 21:59
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Category: Ask Thales
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Dekeken writes
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> Hello Thales,
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> This is more of a curiosity question then a dear Thales question.
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> You recently helped pay for a new government facility that has 3 Yodabytes of memory; presumably enough to record this and all other e-mails of a questionably nature sent and received by US citizens (and their foreign terrorist cohorts). A yodabyte is pretty huge from what I gather. Does the human brain have a yodabyte of capacity?
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Absolutely.
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## Comments
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### Gladys says (2010-07-27 3:08am)
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Lazy answer
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### Thales says (2010-07-27 3:50pm)
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Apathetic response.
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### Jess says (2010-07-30 6:20am)
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It was a yes or no question. Thales answered the question.
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### Dekeken says (2010-08-04 6:01pm)
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Thanks for answering my question. It was sufficient for me. It amazes me that that can be possible. I guess that it makes sense though. I was thinking of remembering every e-mail sent and received but really every day experience includes huge amounts of information. Colors and relationships to items, events and complex situations all include large amounts of information that can be recalled on demand. So, maybe I am not memorizing trillions of e-mails but I am processing similar amounts of information in a different form.
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