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| As shown in this illustration, the first human brain converted to a machine brain may take up every floor of an entire skyscraper and demand a small team of operations specialists. Due to the number of machine pathways using current computer technology, the space required is more than massive. This calls for extreme measures and a solution to decrease machine brain size. |
The first full human brain to be placed into a machine may take up the space of an entire skyscraper!
Based on the human brain calculus conversion to a machine brain, the number of neurons and synaptic pathways are enormous, so much that it could fill a machine the size of a skyscraper. What are some methods and solutions to temper the machine brain size that holds a complete uploaded human brain?
Increase the Technology
Undoubtedly, a way must be found to temper and put restrictions on the size. One way of doing this is by jumping the technology level by an exponential amount. To do this may require the next step in quantum computing. Another idea is to place the structure completely into a virtual brain cloud.
Reduction Algorithms
Another method is by machine reduction using software and hardware algorithmic processes for the reduction of data, but this technique must remain as fast as possible without any noticeable slowing in bandwidth.
Alter the Machine Brain from the Human Standard
Can the human brain transfer to an artificial machine brain that is unlike the human brain but can host and serve all of the human brain functions? This may allow for a dramatic size reduction and offer ways to speed up functions.
Neurons and their Connections
The average human brain has about 86 billion neurons (or nerve cells) and many more neuroglia (or glial cells) which serve to support and protect the neurons. Each neuron may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, passing signals to each other via as many as 1,000 trillion synaptic connections, equivalent by some estimates to a computer with a 1 trillion bit per second processor. Estimates of the human brain’s memory capacity vary wildly from 1 to 1,000 terabytes. For comparison, the 19 million volumes in the US Library of Congress represents about 10 terabytes of data.
Memory Storage Capacity
Most computational neuroscientists tend to estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 terabytes and 100 terabytes, though the full spectrum of guesses ranges from 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes. One terabyte is equal to about 1,000 gigabytes or about 1 million megabytes; a petabyte is about 1,000 terabytes.