system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: The other day, i saw a post on here about how harddrives dont get heavier when information is stored on them, which made me think: do our brains get heavier with the accumulation of information?
gpt
Harddrive store info by literally flipping switches from 1 to 0 (or vice versa), and nothing is created.

When you store info in your brain, the brain creates new connections. This does have SOME mass, but here's the thing, unlike hard drives, we lose information all the time. so in reality, the brain doesn't actually get heavier.