What is the methodology of the original 10 bit/second throughput claim? Knowing exactly what counts as "throughput" is absolutely essential, since the claim is obviously false if you are just looking at raw sensory and muscle control information.
"The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324008080
Very interesting paper. "This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at bits/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained and touches on fundamental aspects of brain function."
PS: About 25 years ago I wrote an article asking whether #mind or #consciousness might depend on the speed of neural processing. I didn't propose that it does. I just asked lots of questions about the possibility. Still very curious about that.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4747485/suber_baudrate.htm
#philosophy
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