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Re:SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever' by jacquesm on Friday September 12, 2014 @11:13AM (#8308433)
You can't really compare passive storage with combined processing and storage. The brain computes all over, it does not have a 'data bus' or a von Neumann like bottle-neck as far as we know today.
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Re:SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever' by 3rd3 on Friday September 12, 2014 @01:33PM (#8309262)
Of course not. However, I would have guessed that the 3-dimensional structure of the brain would still have higher information density compared to 2-dimensional IC's (+ wiring + heat regulation) by some orders of magnitude. But I guess neurons aren't that small after all.
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Re:SanDisk SD memory card 'largest ever' by jacquesm on Friday September 12, 2014 @05:04PM (#8310457)
They're not all that small and there is a ton of support infrastructure and deadweight around them.
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