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This may come across as ridiculous as the people who thought our bodies couldn't handle the high speeds of trains in the 1800s, but I wonder if there is a speed
by gallerdude 10y ago
This may come across as ridiculous as the people who thought our bodies couldn't handle the high speeds of trains in the 1800s, but I wonder if there is a speed limit inside our brain. The post keeps bringing up bandwidth as the issue, but I still think our brain needs time to reflect on what has happened.
- legolas2412 10y agoWell, neurons don't fire instantly. Our reaction time to external stimuli is the "speed-limit" of our brains, but I guess it is to only some kind of stimuli. Inputs directly into our brains from a link/lace might have different speeds.
- veli_joza 10y agoLatency and bandwidth are not the same. You could potentially have huge capacity for information processing, that would just be delayed because of "implementation details" of neuron biology. I'm fascinated by brain's plasticity. One example is while we are watching a movie, our perspective constantly "teleports" around actors and across space and time many times in a minute. Yet this seems normal and doesn't overload our brain. There are biohacking experiments with installing extra sensors that seamlessly integrate into our experience of reality. The unanswered question is how much information can our brain take, and what will happen if there's too much pouring in. Just temporary fatigue or more permanent damage? We cannot know because we never tried it before (aside from specific experiments like air traffic controller and pilot concentration tests).