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What do you consider the likelihood of discovering Silicon based lifeforms?

Not a chemist .... but remembering my organic in college. Very unlikely to have complex Si-based life forms. Can still form long chains, but not as stable, for one thing. Carbon is remarkable.
 
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Not a chemist .... but remembering my organic in college. Very unlikely to have complex Si-based life forms. Can still form long chains, but not as stable, for one thing. Carbon is remarkable.

carbon is remarkable ... but you'd be surprised regarding what we can do with Si ... it's really amazing.
 
What is the current estimate ..

What is the current estimate of the human brains potential to store information?

What percentage of that storage space is used in the average human?

In view of the correct answer to the above questions: What causes the disparity?
 
What is the current estimate of the human brains potential to store information?

What percentage of that storage space is used in the average human?

In view of the correct answer to the above questions: What causes the disparity?

According to scientific american ... "the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows."

but current estimates think it could be 10x that amount.. .but that doesn't mean we can use it all ... think about an iPod with infinite storage ... yes you can hold everything but you still have to download the music, put it on the iPod, and when you want a particular song you have to sort through them all to get it.
 
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