Is the human brain's memory better than a computer's memory?

Computer vs human memory. Posted on ... I don't know whether human memory inspired the design of computers but the similarities are striking as you are going to see. ... It is traditionally thought that the memory content stored in the hippocampus is transferred to another brain area for long term storage. read more

I'd like to say this in terms of memory,"The human brain is contiguous in growth and not continous." The brain's memory has perhaps more than one mechanism, and all of which include neurons, it creates a plastic structure of the brain and is thus called 'Plasticity of the Brain'. read more

For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. The contraptions have won. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, the K from Fujitsu, computes four times faster and holds 10 times as much data. read more

Since the inception of the first computers, there has been a direct comparison between these “computational machines” and the human brain. One of the common phrases that has stuck around for decades, and which encourages the idea of a brain vs. computer argument, is “brains are analogue, computers are digital”. read more