Visual attention is 40 bits/second

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these people claim attention happens at ~10 bits / s. they also claim the raw sensory input, taking the bandwidth of the optic nerves and all the other senses, is 1 Gbit / s. the vast difference is made up by lots of salience filtering between senses and attention.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

The visual spam filter is strong.