My immediate intuition is that any additional skills or facts about the world picked up later in life, wouldn’t affect data storage requirements enough to be relevant to the argument?
For example, if you already have vision and locomotion machinery and you can play the guitar and that takes X petabytes of data, and you then learn how to play the piano, I’d feel quite surprised if that ended up requiring your brain to contain more than even 2X petabytes total of data!
(I recognise I’m not arguing for it, but posting in case others share this intuition)
I don’t immediately see the connection in your comment to what I was saying, which implies that I didn’t express my point clearly enough.
To rephrase: I interpreted FeepingCreature’s comment to suggest that 2.5 petabytes feels implausibly large, and that it to be implausible because based on introspection it doesn’t feel like one’s memory would contain that much information. My comment was meant to suggest that given that we don’t seem to ever run out of memory storage, then we should expect our memory to contain far less information than the brain’s maximum capacity, as there always seems to be more capacity to spare for new information.
My immediate intuition is that any additional skills or facts about the world picked up later in life, wouldn’t affect data storage requirements enough to be relevant to the argument?
For example, if you already have vision and locomotion machinery and you can play the guitar and that takes X petabytes of data, and you then learn how to play the piano, I’d feel quite surprised if that ended up requiring your brain to contain more than even 2X petabytes total of data!
(I recognise I’m not arguing for it, but posting in case others share this intuition)
I don’t immediately see the connection in your comment to what I was saying, which implies that I didn’t express my point clearly enough.
To rephrase: I interpreted FeepingCreature’s comment to suggest that 2.5 petabytes feels implausibly large, and that it to be implausible because based on introspection it doesn’t feel like one’s memory would contain that much information. My comment was meant to suggest that given that we don’t seem to ever run out of memory storage, then we should expect our memory to contain far less information than the brain’s maximum capacity, as there always seems to be more capacity to spare for new information.