Latest studies show that the retina can transmit signals to the brain as fast as an ethernet connection! It seems that the human retina can transmit visual data at approximately 10 million bits per second. In comparison, an ethernet connection can transmit information between computers at speeds of 10 to 100 million bits per second. Study co-authors are McLean and Freed from Penn and Segev and Berry from Princeton. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
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Hi Tripp:
Is faster always better? I'm no technophobe but I think that dusting the crap on blogs these days is a full time job.
Can we afford to bring in a "girl" on Wednesdays to clean?
SJ
AKA Forrest Grump
I'm with NOI on this one.
Is it that the retina-brain connection can transmit that amount of visual data at that rate, or that the brain can process the incoming data stream that fast? My guess is that the limiting factor, whatever it may be, is at one end or the other, and not in the neural network itself.
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