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Penelope_Tree
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Brain Bandwidth
#18833269 - 09/12/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The world seems so overwhelming - war, love, coffee, food, relationships, work, boredom, etc etc etc etc. I don't know how to keep up with it all. There's so much to experience. How am I supposed to pick one thing?
I read an article today that said our brain processes 100 bits of information per second (that includes unconscious information, like background noises, smells, etc). That sounds like a decent number, right?
Since we have that base number, we can guess at how much information you'll process in an average lifetime. 150 billion. Holy hell! 150 billion! That would be 80 years worth of experience with 8 hours of sleep a night. All of that sounds so... daunting and large. We have all that space! and time! Well, the author of the article put it this way:
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Every emotion, thought, sensation, and conversation you’ll ever have is included in that number and the way you’ve allocated those 150 billion bits of attention over the course of your life will make up the entirety of who you were and what you accomplished.
Ouch.
Suddenly, it matters a lot more (a whole lot more) to me how I live my life. Sure, I can't control the weather, but I can choose how to fill the hours of the day. Until, you know, there's so much to explore... and I only have 150 billion bits to use.
How do you choose?
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falcon



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Sounds like a make up number, but since I like saying a hundred I'm not going to contest it.
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FishOilTheKid
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Re: Brain Bandwidth [Re: falcon]
#18833442 - 09/12/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anamnesis:
It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. -wiki
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Penelope_Tree
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Re: Brain Bandwidth [Re: falcon]
#18833481 - 09/12/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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falcon said: Sounds like a make up number, but since I like saying a hundred I'm not going to contest it.
Even if 100 isn't correct, there is definitely a certain amount of information any one of us can handle during a given period of time. IDK too much technically, but I do know that when I push the gas pedal in my car too hard, I don't get more acceleration - I get the sounds of an engine with poor throttle control.
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falcon



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Yeah, it seems that it can only be pushed so far.
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circastes
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Re: Brain Bandwidth [Re: falcon]
#18833592 - 09/12/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Life is so full to the brim if you just give your attention in a certain way. There is no need for fantastic holidays and millions in fortune.
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Penelope_Tree
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Re: Brain Bandwidth [Re: falcon]
#18833609 - 09/12/13 06:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have a hard time planning my day right now because I'm out of work. I have a few things that I do in the AM and an activity or area of study for the PM, but large gaps of time where it's anybody's game as to what I do. I usually wind up being overwhelmed by my free time & the possibilities of what I could be doing that I don't do any of them, but instead opt for entertainment.
Sometimes, it feels like
I'm like, spending my precious time complaining about having too much time?!
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circastes
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In description my life would be a total bore to someone, but because I am in the present and my brain is highly active here even the most trivial scenes are profound and interesting to observe, I feel like I'm really where it's at, and I'm just at home mostly on my own occasionally seeing my brother who's around the house, sometimes playing games and shit. But I can just sit out in the backyard and look in astonishment at everything now.
Try to understand exactly what it is to be present.
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falcon



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Sabbatical the day away!
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teknix
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Penelope_Tree said: The world seems so overwhelming - war, love, coffee, food, relationships, work, boredom, etc etc etc etc. I don't know how to keep up with it all. There's so much to experience. How am I supposed to pick one thing?
I read an article today that said our brain processes 100 bits of information per second (that includes unconscious information, like background noises, smells, etc). That sounds like a decent number, right?
Since we have that base number, we can guess at how much information you'll process in an average lifetime. 150 billion. Holy hell! 150 billion! That would be 80 years worth of experience with 8 hours of sleep a night. All of that sounds so... daunting and large. We have all that space! and time! Well, the author of the article put it this way:
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Every emotion, thought, sensation, and conversation you’ll ever have is included in that number and the way you’ve allocated those 150 billion bits of attention over the course of your life will make up the entirety of who you were and what you accomplished.
Ouch.
Suddenly, it matters a lot more (a whole lot more) to me how I live my life. Sure, I can't control the weather, but I can choose how to fill the hours of the day. Until, you know, there's so much to explore... and I only have 150 billion bits to use.
How do you choose?
I do what I love, being a scholar.
I like to know a little about everything, rather than a lot about anything. Because once I know too much about something, I begin to lose interest.
I will eventually know a lot about something, but what that something will be is still unknown to me.
What about you?
Edited by teknix (09/12/13 06:51 PM)
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LunarEclipse
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Quote:
Penelope_Tree said: The world seems so overwhelming - war, love, coffee, food, relationships, work, boredom, etc etc etc etc. I don't know how to keep up with it all. There's so much to experience. How am I supposed to pick one thing?
I read an article today that said our brain processes 100 bits of information per second (that includes unconscious information, like background noises, smells, etc). That sounds like a decent number, right?
Since we have that base number, we can guess at how much information you'll process in an average lifetime. 150 billion. Holy hell! 150 billion! That would be 80 years worth of experience with 8 hours of sleep a night. All of that sounds so... daunting and large. We have all that space! and time! Well, the author of the article put it this way:
Quote:
Every emotion, thought, sensation, and conversation you’ll ever have is included in that number and the way you’ve allocated those 150 billion bits of attention over the course of your life will make up the entirety of who you were and what you accomplished.
Ouch.
Suddenly, it matters a lot more (a whole lot more) to me how I live my life. Sure, I can't control the weather, but I can choose how to fill the hours of the day. Until, you know, there's so much to explore... and I only have 150 billion bits to use.
How do you choose?
Now if the six, turned out to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind.
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Edited by LunarEclipse (09/12/13 07:25 PM)
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viktor
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One of my life's biggest problems has been thinking about what I'm missing out on whenever I make a decision. If you live somewhere then you miss out on everything that happens elsewhere. If you study one thing then you miss out on studying other things, etc.
I've gotta learn to be happy with what's in front of me, I suppose.
Not sure how to choose but I suspect that it's just to pick one thing and then say "fuck it." The people I know who have done this seem quite happy to me.
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This reminds me...gotta get back into meditation.
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Re: Brain Bandwidth [Re: Hobozen] 1
#18840314 - 09/14/13 08:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I had a great post to this - but a bad connection in my hotel vaporized it.
their bandwith was too low I guess.
anyway the gist of it was we receive signals in the order of 1 million approx 15 times per second. those signals are not processed like a computer but if it were a computer it would not be a 32 or 64 bit processor, more like a 10 million bit processor - the neurons entering and leaving the brain are the data BUS - and it is an astronomically wider bus than a computer.
so we accept 15 million bits per second and those bits create resonant effects (like raindrops on a pond) with interference, and the interference supports feedback and pattern fixation (engrams or memory traces) while also exciting previous engrams with similar patterns - which is associative recall.
nothing like a computer - no ALU - no Instruction processor, nor any random access memory manager.
we have some other stuff, and it all patches back to body.
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LunarEclipse
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redgreenvines said: I had a great post to this - but a bad connection in my hotel vaporized it.
their bandwith was too low I guess.
anyway the gist of it was we receive signals in the order of 1 million approx 15 times per second. those signals are not processed like a computer but if it were a computer it would not be a 32 or 64 bit processor, more like a 10 million bit processor - the neurons entering and leaving the brain are the data BUS - and it is an astronomically wider bus than a computer.
so we accept 15 million bits per second and those bits create resonant effects (like raindrops on a pond) with interference, and the interference supports feedback and pattern fixation (engrams or memory traces) while also exciting previous engrams with similar patterns - which is associative recall.
nothing like a computer - no ALU - no Instruction processor, nor any random access memory manager.
we have some other stuff, and it all patches back to body.
bet patches would never have guessed the excitement of an engram.
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