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Decoding any part of his memories would be the greatest archeological coup in history, by a massive margin. By some estimates, the cerebral cortex can store hu
by ETH_start 2y ago
Decoding any part of his memories would be the greatest archeological coup in history, by a massive margin.
By some estimates, the cerebral cortex can store hundreds of terabytes of information. Recovering even 0.1% of that would amount to possibly hundreds of GB of information about life in a major Roman urban center.
- nkrisc 2y agoOr hundreds of GB of “how to stand up without falling” or “what fish taste like” or “don’t grab thorny bushes”.
- devmor 2y agoOr “how to contract muscle here to make lungs intake air”
- throwway120385 2y agoI thought a lot of this stuff was basically below conscious thought. You can interrupt it but otherwise the urge to breathe and the corresponding breathing proceeds apace. I've been told that in ventilator-dependent patients if the ventilator has too low a breath rate they still have the urge to breathe and feel it quite painfully until the ventilator takes a breath for them. If you pass out under water because you run out of oxygen you will immediately resume breathing and drown.