Comment Re:All you need is 800 MB and 100 Watts (Score 1) 105
You need a bit more than 800 MB because sensory input is information too. A child spends a lot of time taking in information and learning from it. For that matter, it may take even more as humans learn from each other, and from preexisting culture; if you were to plonk a bunch of babies in an uninhabited environment, I wouldn't count on them surviving for very long. Even if they somehow didn't need food. From such a perspective, the 800 MB is just for the initial bootstrap.