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Perception in humans seems capable of grasping data sets with billions of pieces of information each second, and distilling it all down to intuition. All this
by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Perception in humans seems capable of grasping data sets with billions of pieces of information each second, and distilling it all down to intuition.
All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels (excluding things like one's sense of balance, or the awareness of how your body is posed), all streamed concurrently.
Sounds like a recipe for high bandwidth consumption. Many cycles per second.
Based on this, I'd wager we (and our perception of self) only exist in the ether between our body's neurons.
- paul_milovanov 10y ago5 channels? those are some whooping-ass channels.
- taneq 10y agoEach 'channel' (assuming he means senses) has a helluva bus width.
- acqq 10y agoMoreover, we have more than five senses. An example of one of these, for this we have the real "devices" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system built-in to give us the sense of balance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_balance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_balance
- Terr_ 10y ago> All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels Says who? Just because you can invent categories doesn't mean you've identified channels. That would be like walking up to a computer, say "pictures, sounds, storage", and assume that the computer must contain 3 enormous channels dedicated to each type of information.