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.
Posts like this show that not everyone understands what science is, though that doesn’t stop them. Sometimes just having one downvote isn’t enough.
