That's really a good question. If you are a creative genius, as I assert, then how much can you really learn? I've never seen anyone run to the hospital emergency room and ask the doctor, "I've got a class tonight and my brain is full. Can you drain out about 10% so I can learn something new?" You can continue to learn during your whole life and never fill your brain. So just how much can your brain hold?
Your brain capacity is infinite. Research up to 1974 indicated that your genius brain contains 10^12 (that's a 1 followed by 12 zeros) brain cells, each of those cells interacts with 100,000 other cells. That makes 10^800 possible combinations. Compare that to 10^108 atoms in the known universe. (Who was the person with the tweezers that counted all the atoms? :-)
By 1989, additional research showed that each of those interactions can be one of 100,000 chemical reactions. I've actually done this calculation. I set up a computer workstation to do the calculation and let it run overnight. I figured it would be done the next morning. It wasn’t. I checked how far it had gotten and calculated it would take another 10,000 years to complete the calculation. So I used logarithms. Remember those? That way you can do the calculation on a pocket calculator. Now, if you wrote this number out by hand on paper it would take about one trillion pages. Have you seen that picture that represents a trillion dollars?
It looks like an acre of pallets of money stacked on each other. This number would take that stack of money and pile another 10 trillion stacks on top of it. In other words, you have almost infinite capacity to learn!
If I have so much brain capacity, why can't I remember names? That's a subject for another blog.
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