[Biophysics] Re: the computational neurophysics of perception

[Bryan Hackney]

StpNrrs at aol.com wrote:
> 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:
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>>
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> "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.
> 

Try this. Fill your monitor with approximately 8 point text, and see how
much you can read with your peripheral vision. Not much, eh?