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> Humans take in a tremendously high bitrate of data via other senses and are able to connect those to the much lower amount of language input such that the lan

> Humans take in a tremendously high bitrate of data via other senses and are able to connect those to the much lower amount of language input such that the language can go much further. They don't. Human bitrates are quite low all things considered. The eyes which by far produce them most information only have a bitrate equivalent to ~2kbps: http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/ruyter+laughlin_96a.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/ruyter+laughlin... The rest of the input nerves don't bring us over 20kpbs. The average image recognition system has access to more data and can tell the difference between a cat and a banana. A human has somewhat more capability than that.

lostmsu 4y ago
I think the link says a single synapse does 2kbps, not the whole visual cortex. There are 6 quadrillion (10^12) synapses (3q per hemisphere) in visual cortex according to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7244322/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7244322/ If we play "the bus filled with ping-pongs" with that information: it is a 3D structure so if you assume cortex is a perfect cube that feeds to something right behind it, you will get (10^12)^(2 (dimensions)/3 (of 3 dimensions)) channels, e.g. 10^8 channels 2kbps each. E.g. about 25GB/s. Which is less than an order of magnitude off from an estimate you would get from 8000x8000 resolution per eye True Color at 24fps - 9GB/s.