It has been obvious to me for some time, and vera birkenbihl said as much, that the brain basically remembers connections to ideas. That is why if you learn that a word, that you already knew, is associated with another language, you might remember it quickly and practically forever while a new word takes longer. That in itself compresses things a lot. As for each neuron being a byte, who knows? We also remember things without realizing it, so there may be more to remember.
ALSO, KB is a computer term, and computers store things in round binary units. The closest unit to 1000 is 10bits, which is 1024. 9 is 512, and 11 is 2048. For mechanical storage, they feel they can get away with it, so they round down. So 120GB on a mechanical disk drive is REALLY only about 111GB.
Steve
