I came across this article the other day about the possibility that memories might be stored on our DNA itself. I and most others were under the impression that memory storage probably had something to do with the physical interconnections between neurons, or that there was something else weird going on like bizarre quantum-level effects. I think this fits the bill for weirdness, and it’s certainly food for thought. In my opinion, if this turns out to be true, it pushes the possibility of a computer being able to simulate a human mind back a few years.

Think about it – the human brain is thought to contain 50-100 billion neurons, and the human genome has 3 billion base pairs. So, you can see that the amount of digital storage required just to represent a headful of neurons is 3×10^20 – that’s at least 300 BILLION GIGABYTES of info.

Well, it really does boggle the mind. In the meantime, have a read:

New Scientist – Memories may be stored in your DNA