Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018)
by p1esk on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:23PM
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Given how robust a brain is against noise, I'd be surprised if any brain signals are more precise than an equivalent of 3-4 bits.
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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018)
by jbay808 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:37PM
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I agree, and I think in practice the brain's noise floor is also much higher than the theoretical thermal-noise minimum. But I guess the main point is that once we acknowledge that even 32 bits is more than enough, the difference between an analog and digital machine loses a lot of its philosophical weight.