-- card: 13837 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 25765 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2564 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- Your brain weighs only three pounds yet a computer with the same number of "bits" would be 100 stories tall and cover the state of Texas. -- part contents for background part 2 ----- text ----- Information theorist John von Neumann once estimated that the memories stored in the human brain during an average lifetime would amount to approximately a number of 2.8 with 20 zeros behind it. (This assumes nothing is ever forgotten.)