“The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at an enormous rate, no less than 1 gigabits/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
The article has a lot of information about the information processing rate of humans. Worth reading. But I think the article is equating two different things:
The information processing capacity (of the brain; gigabits) is related to the complexity of the environment in which the species (here: the human) lives.
While what they call information throughput (~10bits/s) is really a behavior expression rate, that is related to the physical possibilities of the species (can’t move faster than your motor system allows).
I saw this in Xixidu’s feed:
The article has a lot of information about the information processing rate of humans. Worth reading. But I think the article is equating two different things:
The information processing capacity (of the brain; gigabits) is related to the complexity of the environment in which the species (here: the human) lives.
While what they call information throughput (~10bits/s) is really a behavior expression rate, that is related to the physical possibilities of the species (can’t move faster than your motor system allows).
I read somewhere that total consciously-accessible human memory has around 1 GB and it is increasing by 2 bits per second.