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Brain and Mind 4 (2): 189-198, August 2003 Copyright C 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers All rights reserved Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory Yingxu Wang Theoretical and Empirical Software Engineering Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dong Liu Theoretical and Empirical Software Engineering Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ying Wang The Fourth City Hospital of Xian, Dachaishi 1, Xian, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China 71000 Abstract Despite the fact that the number of neurons in the human brain has been identified in cognitive and neural sciences, the magnitude of human memory capacity is still unknown. This paper reports the discovery of the memory capacity of the human brain, which is on the order of 108432 bits. A cognitive model of the brain is created, which shows that human memory and knowledge are represented by relations, i.e., connections of synapses between neurons, rather than by the neurons themselves as the traditional container metaphor described. The determination of the magnitude of human memory capacity is not only theoretically significant in cognitive science, but also practically useful to unveil the human potential, as well as the gap between the natural and machine intelligence. Keywords brain, cognitive informatics, cognitive model, knowledge representation, memory capacity, neuropsychology, OAR model, software engineering Article ID: 470190 ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
