The human brain has such a large capacity, why do we always feel that the memory is not enough?

Humans are the smartest creatures on earth, and the brain plays an important role. The human brain is a very, very wonderful and profound organization, one of the most important organs of an organism, and it can be said to be a microcosm of the universe.

There are about one trillion brain cells in the human brain, of which one hundred billion have memory and storage functions. So, if the human body is compared to a computer, then the brain has the functions of both CPU and hard disk. How much is the memory?

To understand this problem, we must first explore the limits of the human brain. Only under extreme conditions can we compare with computer memory.

The human brain has about tens of billions of brain cells, each brain cell has about hundreds of brain nerves, each nerve has about hundreds of synapses, and each synapse has hundreds to thousands of proteins. The function of a brain cell is equivalent to that of a large computer, and the function of a synapse is equivalent to that of a computer chip.

A simple calculation shows that the human brain is equivalent to hundreds of billions or even trillions of chips.

The human brain has 14 billion nerve cells and 86 billion neurons, forming a very complex system. According to current research, some scientists believe that the capacity of the human brain is 1TB, or 1024G, by studying the structure of neurons in the brains of mice.

If this is the case, why do people always feel that their memory is not enough when their brains are so large? When I was in school, I could never remember the content of the textbooks or the key points of the class. After work, I often forget things.

In fact, the human brain cannot be simply converted into the capacity of a hard drive, but is more complex than a hard drive.

The 100 billion neurons in the human brain are not entirely used for storage. They also have complex functions such as organization, analysis, processing and cleaning, so only a small part is used to store memories.

Early German psychologists discovered that about 70% of human memory will be quickly forgotten within a few hours - the brain's memory is divided into short-term memory and long-term memory, short-term memory is equivalent to a computer's memory, and long-term memory is equivalent to a hard drive.

Memory is limited, and the brain will choose to keep the memories you think are important. After repeated recall and practice, the neurons deep in the brain form a fixed path to form long-term memory.

The brain considers unimportant memories, such as how many times you drank water or went to the toilet in a day, to be forgotten after a while.

Despite this, I still believe that the human brain has infinite potential, and the future development and progress of human civilization will definitely be closely related to the deep development of the brain.

Perhaps in the near future, there will be a magical drug that can help humans develop their brains and stimulate their potential.

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