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Partizan Inner circle London UK 1682 Posts |
If you were to look at the amount of data you deal with every day, how would you rate your efficiency?
Like a benchmark for computers. Is there a benchmark for human processing power? Do you deal with a lot of text based data? Do you deal with a lot of image based data? Do you deal with a lot of audio based data? ect. ect. How many words on average do you read/write per day, How many numbers do you use per day, How many decisions per day, How many interactions with humans/animals/plants/objects do you have each day? Are you running at 5gHz or 128Hz?
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Just processing what we see... much more than gHz scale.
We wake up faster than a Windows PC. We also have faster bus lines.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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peterng25 New user 90 Posts |
I think I have different programs within the Operating System which is my consciousness/self:
1) If I am in the mentalist/wise reader counselor program, I use certain ways to make sense of what I see, and give out advice according to the other person's personality and circumstances at that moment. 2) In a more active mode, eg when doing some mental feats, I need to consider outs, think on my feet, and it's a different program entirely. In conclusion, to keep up the comparison, I guess I also need a lot of RAM to keep up with reality. And of course, that will deteriorate with age |
Bill Hallahan Inner circle New Hampshire 3222 Posts |
Jonathan Townsend is right. The human brain is enormously more powerful than the fastest computer on earth.
Your question has been studied before using a branch of science called information theory. Note that while the information processing that the brain does is not well understood (although parts of it are understood), the information that goes into the brain and the motor output of the brain is fairly well understood, at least in terms of the amount of information. (Information theory was created by a brilliant scientist and engineer named Claude Shannon in a seminal paper titled, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”). Our brains have from 10 billion to 100 billion neurons. Many of these have hundreds of connections to other neurons. Neurons in the brain send information at millisecond rates. A modern Central Processing Unit (CPU) in a computer has about 100 million transistors, and while these can fire several billion times per second, they can only access information in memory one item at a time. Contrast this with the brain where there are a thousand times more neurons than transistors in a CPU and they all process information simultaneously. A modern PC uses over several hundred watts of power, about 400 watts is typical today. (If your PC uses 250 watts or less, you have an old machine). The human brain uses about 40 watts of power. We’re not only much more powerful, but we use only a fraction of the power a computer uses. The fastest modern computers now have about the same computing power as a small insect. There are already some innovative products based on this, such as the vacuum cleaner that runs itself. There are lawnmowers like this too. The primary advantage computers offer is that they are specialized for speed and people can supply specific instructions to them. Nobody can multiply hundreds of millions of numbers every second. That’s easy with a computer. Oh, they’re good for posting on Internet forums too. Try that using just a plain brain! IQ tests were once considered a crude benchmark for human processing power, although they measured only capacity and not whether the intelligence is used. But psychologist Howard Gardner has identified seven types of intelligence, Linguistic; Logical-Mathematical; Bodily-kinesthetic; Spatial; Musical; Interpersonal; and Intrapersonal. So a great dancer could have a different type of intelligence that might be as deep as Einstein’s Logical-Mathematical ability.
Humans make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to create boredom. Quite astonishing.
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cloneman Elite user 474 Posts |
A wonderful book on the subject of brain/computer comparisons (specifically artificial intelligence) is The Society of the Mind by Marvin Minsky.
"Anything is possible... if you don't know what you are talking about."
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Partizan Inner circle London UK 1682 Posts |
I would say that after using SEMM3 and other techniques, my brain is running some hot a55 speeds.
My capture rates are well up. My auditory is inhuman, I can hear things that other people do not register. I can see things at great distance, like reading a bus number at 3/4 kilometer, when other people standing around me can't read it until it's within 300 meters. My awareness of crowd movement is 100%. I can project a path between many moving people on many tradjectories an make a smooth journey through with speed. Look. I'm not boasting. I'm giving you an honest breakdown of how I run my brain. I seem to be way overactive by most standards and have nothing to compare with really.
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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Mack Magic Loyal user The Burgh' Pittsburgh, PA 268 Posts |
I can believe that Partizan, w/o thinking of you boasting.
It can depend upon one's own perception and how much you rely on one or all senses. Religion, one's beliefs, and one's realization to something(whatever it be) can make it more noticeable to them then others without them leaving the same world as other people. A good example is when you own a vehicle you might notice that same kind more than you would if you owned a different brand(Where did all these Broncos come from!?). If you're paranoid of spiders, you would be able to find them more; love birds you'll always see them on your morning jog, don't care about birds probably wouldn't register to you to look at one for more than 10 seconds. So in essense you can be living in your own world without it being technically wrong, right, fake, or real.(That includes to someone else's world or perception) It can be said its a matter of what is more commonly accepted at your time that defines "reality." What was considered right one time could be wrong centuries later, history could/has prove this. My hearing is interesting as I could hear something like in the air(a helicopter) miles away before someone would realize one 4 minutes later, but when it comes to normal conversation up close I can sometimes miss a word or too. Is it the range of the sound that does it? lol I don't know. It is things like these that make me know that mankind is capable of much more than realized today and that maybe within a few years it will be proven or seen. Sorry that I turned this thread into philosophy of some sort but I love it.*grins* Just my honest opinion and thoughts, Mack Magic
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sunnymagician New user 19 Posts |
28^20 (28 raised to the power of 20) was said to be the memory capacity of the human brain.
Anybody aware of any updates on this figure? |
Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
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