A Balanced Memory Network

Ever wonder how much information we put in our heads? The answer: a lot. For starters, a typical vocabulary is 50,000-250,000 words. And then there are all the little details that stretch back decades -- the house we grew up in, the time we spilled orange juice on our test back in third grade, the solution to a quadratic equation (for some of us). So where do we put it all? If we had hard drives in our heads, the answer would be easy: we would store memories as 0s and 1s.