On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:31 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a very interesting point. What is the estimated capacity of the > human brain? I seem to recalls some 10^17 bits being mentioned somewhere, > or at least that figure has stuck in my mind (but not having an eidetic > memory, or much of a normal one, I can't say where from). >
PCW Davies claims that a human brain neuron requires about 10^120 bits; and therefore, since this is the Lloyd Limit for the available bits in our observable universe, neurons may be at the threshold for consciousness. http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0602/0602420.pdf > > > On 6 February 2014 15:58, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> An aspect of my string cosmology is that the metaverse contains a >> 4D-space (in which one space axis is time) >> that records every event that ever happened in this and every universe >> much like the Akashic Records. >> Eidetics and gurus can apparently time travel in this block-space. >> Richard >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Pierz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The phenomenon of eidetic (photographic) memory is well established as a >>> reality. For an example of what it means, read the top answer to this >>> quora.com >>> question<http://www.quora.com/digest/track_click?hash=2e8ec7de05b636790212092c83f0936e&aoid=pLlVYjWVKa&aoty=2&ty_data=4012999&ty=1&digest_id=241884556&click_pos=1&st=1391558946766537&source=3&stories=1_L4sR6imoEQB%7C1_aytbQbnb2zW%7C1_jA8otFvN9FH%7C1_4XH6bzBFPwr%7C1_4TMBUpDzRpy%7C1_8f6Kgdm4jXW%7C1_XDaAF5TDFVy%7C1_zsSejxTjfe6&v=2&aty=4>. >>> People with this gift/disability remember every moment of their lives in >>> *perfect >>> *detail. To me this raises real questions about the comp hypothesis and >>> the 'yes doctor'. Consider the 'RAM' required for this type of recall. >>> Memories are 3d and 'retina' resolution. If we consider that an hour of >>> Blu-ray footage consumes about 30Gb, then some rough calculations show that >>> Blu-ray quality footage of an entire life of 60 years would consume around >>> 17,000 terabytes of storage. But these memories include tactile, olfactory >>> and cognitive channels as well as visual and auditory information, and of >>> course the resolution of the visual system is far better than Blu-ray. I'd >>> take a rough guess and say that full recording of a person's mental >>> experience in all external and internal channels would have to require >>> hundreds or even thousands of times the bandwidth of Blu-ray. But even at >>> what I'd think would be an extremely conservative estimate of a hundred >>> times, we're up near two million terabytes (two exabytes). What's more, >>> there appears to be no strain, no sign of running out of space at all, as >>> if capacity was simply not an issue. This type of example makes me really >>> question whether digital prosthetics are a real possibility at all - it >>> looks to me strongly suggestive of a totally different way of recording >>> information, or even of the possibility that recording and storage are the >>> wrong metaphor entirely. 'Christian' in the above quora response says that >>> he has little means of distinguishing a memory from a live experience, >>> making for a very confusing mental life. This type of memory looks more >>> like a kind of time travel than a recording. Perhaps this is still >>> compatible with Bruno's version of comp - the universal subject inhabiting >>> the pure space of Number - but it's more problematic for step one of the >>> whole argument that leads to this vision, namely saying 'yes' to a digital >>> brain. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
