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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.221655.7161@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <1990Dec28.142958.17394@taronga.hackercorp.com> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I don't know about this "humans have low external bandwidth" business.
>After all, real-time image processing and analysis is pretty damn hard.
>Look at the behaviour of your typical autonomous robot...
>
>In fact the real-time control problem for a human body requires lots
>of simultaneous inputs, any of which is at a decent (by computer standards)
>baud rate.

The answer is simple.  Most of these studies conceive of the human being as
being a disembodied brain with a single consciousness.  Too much influence
from the information processing paradigm.  Take a recorded speech...a
transcription will give all the text but loses all the data that was in the
form of nuances and inflection.  You only get what you measure for.