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Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by giardini on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:13PM (#14599061)
Oh_sigh says:"...we don't absorb gigabits of information."

We're talking bits/second (bandwidth) here, not simply bits. So given that...

The human visual pathway has a bandwidth of about 10 megabits per second, so we build the current "view" somewhere in our brain and constantly update it with the stream of data from the visual pathways (there are several). So we're always scanning visually, always updating our view with new info.

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Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:36PM (#14599170)
Well, OP never specified, so neither did I, but I did suspect that they were talking about per second. To say we absorb gigabits of information over 90 years is a different story, and one which I assumed OP wasn't talking about.
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