robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> in article 1130629424.117822.102680 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com,
>maestro at ultrapiano.com at StpNrrs at aol.com wrote on 10/29/2005 19:43:
>> > A sort of statistical neurodynamics of noise transmission, I suppose.
> > What practical use is your friend's (Bob Adams) theory? Does it
> > explain the brain's equivalent to Brownian motion - those odd sudden
> > jolts and tics that one sometimes experiences when half-asleep?
>> he was able to explain, using the audio engineering concept of
> noise-shaping, how it is that we hear sound so well, to such a "fidelity"
> that using silicon-based systems (44100*16 bits per second in one ear),
> through this known neural bottleneck of our auditory nervous system.
"this known neural bottleneck". Do you mean the disparity in the
amount of information that the ear sends the brain, at most a few
thousand haircells firing ten times per second, compared to the
44100*16 bits per second required for high-fidelity digital audio
sound? The same 'known neural bottleneck' occurs in the eyes - about
1000000*3*25 bits per second when your're looking at your computer
monitor.
