How many megabytes does your brain hold?

ORIGINAL: Science Dump

05/27/2012

In its latest cross-border taunts, North Korea's state-run media has called South Korean President Lee Myung-bak an "underwit with 2MB of knowledge." How many megabytes should a human brain be able to store?

A lot more than two. Most computational neuroscientists estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 and 100 terabytes. A terabyte is 1 million megabytes.