Obviously, it doesn't use C++ or Java or anything like that. But musn't all mental processes fundamentally rely on some kind of genetically endowed code of some sort? The analogies between the brain and a computer are so striking that seems like the brain must have "software" of some kind.
Nerves that fire together wire together.
Unless the brain is a quantum computer. Look up "quantum mind." Might explain why we can't model AI very well.
A classical computer can easily model a quantum one, but very slowly. Look up Turing computable.
The reason humans can't make decent AI is because humans like to believe they're a lot smarter than they really are.
(I'm an alien, so I can say that)
Study: Humanity can store 295 exabytes of data
by Stephen Shankland
What do you get if you pile up all those USB thumb drives, CDs, chip-enabled credit cards, moldering videocassettes, library books, and Babylonian clay tablets?
About 295 exabytes of storage capacity, that's what. So conclude Martin Hilbert and Priscilla Lopez, researchers at the University of Southern California, who today published in the journal Science their estimate of just how much information humans can store at present.
That number is, of course, big. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, and a petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, and a terabyte is about what you'd get in a desktop PC hard drive these days.
And that number is, of course, getting bigger. General-purpose computing storage capacity is growing at about 58 percent per year, according to the study.
But here's an even bigger number: the amount of data that vanishes into the ether. The researchers say humanity broadcast about 1.9 zettabytes of information from sources such as TV shows and GPS satellite location data in 2007. A zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes.
And although humanity has an impressive collective hard drive, it's peanuts compared to what nature has accomplished. Humanity's manufactured storage capacity is just a hundredth of the information capacity of humanity's DNA, the researchers said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20031295-264.html
how many potato chips is a zettabyte?
Enough to fill Madison Square Garden or the Rose Bowl
enough to make Hoover Dam or cover Rhode Island a foot deep
Is it like the number of grains of rice an olympic swimming pool can hold?
Please give a sense of magnatude if you would.
A zettabyte is basically a measure of a sextillion quantity.
So, assuming 7,000 grains of rice in a cup and an Olympic size pool is 50x25x3 meters... that puts us at the amount of rice needed to fill 9 BILLION Olympic sized swimming pools.
The Zettabyte File System ZFS has made scores of hardware RAID server products obsolete. It's open source, only a few thousand lines of code. It runs on the Solaris UNIX operating system. Pretty amazing technology.
Zettabyte = 10^21 bytes
10^17 stacked sheets of paper would stretch to Pluto.
10,000 times more than that = Zettabyte