The Mind's Data Capacity!

Now I get it.

When we express the capacity of our conscious mind into computing terms - it is very small indeed. Scientists believe that the capacity of our conscious mind is less than 100 bits per second. It is very important to understand what the incoming flow of subconscious information is, expressed in the same terms.

Subconscious:

Eyes (vision): 10,000,000 bits per second

Ears (hearing): 100,000 bits per second

Skin (touch): 1,000,000 bits per second

Nose (smell): 100,000 bits per second

Mouth (taste): 1,000 bits per second

The conscious incoming flow of information is, expressed in the same terms. (There are 8 bits to a byte).

Eyes (vision): 40 bits per second

Ears (hearing): 30 bits per second

Skin (touch): 5 bits per second

Nose (smell): 1 bit per second

Mouth (taste): 1 bit per second

(Source : John Bruer, based on Zimmerman, M. Schmidt, R. F. and Thews, G.(1989) The nervous system in the context of information theory. Human physiology pp.166-173. Springer , Berlin )

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