# Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01387-9>

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## What Jamie wrote

It is completely amazing how much is happening in this single cubic millimeter!

> The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses -- the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data.

1.4 petabytes in a millimeter? 🤯 This sort of analysis makes me wonder if there is a concept of a digital brain as compared to an human brain the foundational structures are so different. Might this be where some of the very wild things in quantum computing make a difference?

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