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From: frank@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Frank Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: How much info can the brain hold?
Message-ID: <3415@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 29 Nov 90 21:21:26 GMT
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In <7492@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) writes:

>In article <11941@hubcap.clemson.edu> svissag@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve L Vissage II) writes:

>>  Has there ever been a reliable estimate of
>>how much information, in bits or other computer-relevant units, can be
>>contained in that structure?

>  What is the speed
>(in MHz, or other units) that the brin runs at, and
>how does it vary with state.  Also, how does this
>compare iwht existing parrallel-processed hardware?

In one book by Richard Dawkins (the Selfish Gene I think) He
estimates roughly how many bits per second of input the brain 
is processing.  I can't remember the details, but it seemed
surprisingly low, of the order of real time video.

He worked it out from the definition of our vision, hearing etc.

Do people (who've read it) think this means anything or what.

-- 
Frank Breen            "I am a warrior in the landscape of my mind"
Monash Uni                                                -unkown?