> It's an interesting question indeed, why the mind produces so little output compared to input. My theory is that consciousness is super complicated and brain

> It's an interesting question indeed, why the mind produces so little output compared to input. My theory is that consciousness is super complicated and brain has barely enough juice to crank out any of it. Conscious field of vision is about 2% of total field of vision and we observe the world by constantly swiping it with this 2%. This way we reuse both neural circuitry of our brains and also training data that would otherwise necessarily be spread across larger size of neural network if our conscious field of vision was larger. So it short, conscious output is so small because we are dumb and short lived. I also wouldn't say that there's a lot of information in the side channels. Properly compressed it's probably less than engaged conscious output.