The last invention we will ever need

is a super smart robot that can invent stuff. This means it can invent an even smarter robot that can invent more stuff.

Discuss.

You don't need nearly that much room to store a human brain. I did a rough calculation once and came up with 400 TB, but scientists put the upper limit much lower than that; something like 10^12 bits, which is just over 100 gigs. So you could apparently fit several human brains on a typical modern hard drive.

If you don't believe me, calculate it yourself. A hundred billion neurons, a hundred trillion synapses. Say four bytes to store data on each neuron/synapse (firing threshhold, etc), plus four more bytes to link the synapse to its target (the synapses could be listed directly after the source to save space and computation time). Dedicated target decoding table for synapses that link to muscles or anything other than neurons, we don't need to store that because it can be generalized for human anatomy.

That amounts to roughly 100 trillion x 8 bytes = 700 TB, uncompressed. Meh, not so bad. I'm no neurologist. Definitely feasable for storage anyway.