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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by maxbond on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:37PM (#30935178)
Bitrate is a total red herring here. What matters is what computation is performed, not the rate at which it is performed. That's like saying a 4-bit microcontroller isn't a computer because it can't run Doom.
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by floober on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:27PM (#30936454)
I'd think it is something like a ratio of bitrate to entropy. How quickly is information being processed relative to how quickly it is being lost?
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by alan-hn on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:01PM (#30937375)
Do we know if it's being lost at all?
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by idiotsecant on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:57PM (#30938506)
Yes. That's thermodynamics.
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