This is not true or false because the capacity of human memory itself is debatable, and often uses arguments that are essentially not strong enough. So we like to hear (while holding back the laughter and sleepiness) that we only use 4% of our brain capacity alone, or 20%, or 2.5%.
John von Neumann (1953) once estimated the capacity of a human brain for thirty-five exabytes (one exa = one thousand maps = one million tera = a billion giga). Big enough - even for today's computer sizes.
Estimates of the following years give different figures. An estimated 100 trillion nerve connections between brain cells occur; and this is considered equivalent to a capacity of 40 terabytes. Still big enough, though not as loud as von Neumann's.
Prof. Dr. Ralph Merkle from Georgia Tech mentioned that the researchers have not yet worked out the basic assumptions about how the brain feeds information. Then he proposes conducting a live experiment that records the capacity of the brain directly. He took some previous studies, and recalculated them. The results are impressive. Our memory capacity is estimated to be only about 200 megabytes. Wow, 256MB flash drive is already starting to be wasted because it is considered too small.
But even if this may (hopefully) drop our ego, the conclusions drawn are quite interesting. Our brains are special because they do not do processing and storage like a computer. The brain is capable of managing exceptional memory resources so that with such capacity, it is able to store and process information much more reliably than a computer.
Yes whatever the results of such research, but the human brain is second to none ...
We have a better way to compress information.