A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:50PM (#14597363)

I guess I have a question of what OP meant when saying your sensory organs "absorb" gigabits per second of information. In my reading, I took that to mean sensory input that actually makes it into the brain. After all, asphalt absorbs that same information, but I don't think that is a particularly interesting use of the infirmation.

In another reply I quoted research that shows that only ~10 kbits/sec make it even into layer 4 of v1 from the optic nerve.

If you have anything talking about spinal processing I'd love to read it.

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Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by ABCLAW on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:54PM (#14597977)

Not sure what you're looking for specifically, but a quick search for Spinal Nerve (or bundle!) Processing will give you a ton of results. Restrict yourself to pub med or google scholar, because there are a lot of mediocre results.

I think the main confusion here was over the definition of 'absorb'. Your version is much narrower than I'd use. The sensory molecular pathways and accompanying structure of nerves themselves produce significant processing right at the outset which your definition would entirely discount. There is no reason to discount what would otherwise become 'pre-processing' in your model.

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