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The Weight of Data
- snthpy 3y agoComparing with the weight of a soul at 21 grams [1] would put the information content of a soul at 4.7652×10^13 TB (terabytes) [2]. Assuming neural storage is less efficient would suggest that this is an overestimate. FYI, I don't believe any of this. Just putting it out there for science. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment [2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=21+grams+%2F+4.40698+x+10%5E-13+grams+*+1+TB https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=21+grams+%2F+4.40698+x+...
- tnecniv 3y agoThis is about 12 orders of magnitude off what you get using the mass-energy-information equivalence. The MEI is theoretically what you arrive at by combining E = mc^2 with the the fact that the entropy of a system at a fixed temperature can bet written as a difference between the total energy and free energy of the system.