How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?

Re:How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have? by jv22222 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @02:04AM (#20426725)

I followed your links and ended up in this rather excellent essay:

https://medium.com/the-spike/your-cortex-contains-17-billion...

One of the final points the author makes is that the brain might be a neural network made up of as many as 89 million neural networks.

That's a staggering concept.

If true, I wonder how anyone stays sane with that level of entropy in the system!

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Re:How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have? by Veedrac on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:26AM (#20427101)

The "neural network of neural networks" thing is a bit of lavish exaggeration TBH, because a network of networks is just a larger network. The human brain has about 100tn synapses, which I think is a less obscure statistic to marvel about.

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