Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/s? The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained…
Not so much. The stark contrast is the result of a set of stupid premises.
our sensory systems gather data at ∼10^9 bits/s.
Even In the ‘machine model’ of the brain this article appears to espouse … vastly simplistic as it is … the brain processes 10^9 bits of vision, audio, and kinetic clues which usually results in a limited but highly appropriate response … often in much less than a second … to gymnastic moves or crossing a busy street, driving a jet, performing on a violin, whatever. That response quickly arrives as the result of a model built on long experience of actual reality.
The authors fail to come up with -any- source (credible or not) for that ridiculous 10 bits/s number. Their model is so simplistic it isn’t even worth engaging with.
The authors fail to come up with -any- source (credible or not) for that ridiculous 10 bits/s number. Their model is so simplistic it isn’t even worth engaging with.
And yet I’ve seen this article like 5 times since Christmas on Lemmy. If it was all just for the joke that Lemmings process data a 2 bits/sec, once, I’d be fine with it, but this trend of being fire-hosed with manure since the US election ended is seriously making me consider if Lemmy is worth it anymore.
