Perception in humans seems capable of grasping data sets with billions of pieces of information each second, and distilling it all down to intuition.

All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels (excluding things like one's sense of balance, or the awareness of how your body is posed), all streamed concurrently.

Sounds like a recipe for high bandwidth consumption. Many cycles per second.

Based on this, I'd wager we (and our perception of self) only exist in the ether between our body's neurons.

> All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels

Says who? Just because you can invent categories doesn't mean you've identified channels. That would be like walking up to a computer, say "pictures, sounds, storage", and assume that the computer must contain 3 enormous channels dedicated to each type of information.

5 channels? those are some whooping-ass channels.

Each 'channel' (assuming he means senses) has a helluva bus width.

Moreover, we have more than five senses. An example of one of these, for this we have the real "devices"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system

built-in to give us the sense of balance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_balance

For example:

Masgrau et al. (2006) Atomic Description of an Enzyme Reaction Dominated by Proton Tunneling

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1126/science.1126002