3 ms·
For scale, a human spine has coming off it a few hundred thousand nerve fibers inside 31 pairs of nerves.[1] I was actually expecting more, since that is effec
by londons_explore 3y ago
For scale, a human spine has coming off it a few hundred thousand nerve fibers inside 31 pairs of nerves.[1]
I was actually expecting more, since that is effectively IO for the whole body, and each individual nerve fiber tends not to fire more than tens of Hz.
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612209/
- rbanffy 3y agoNot the whole body. Eyes and ears have their own high bandwidth direct attachment interfaces to the cortex.