Ethernet and Your Brain

July 28, 2006 – 10:14 am

“Each of your eyes transfers information to your brain at about the same speed as a fast Ethernet connection.”  (as reported in this New Scientist article).  That’s about 8.75 megabits/sec (extrapolating from guinea pig data).  Our brains could handle more — kind of funny to discover that even evolution leads to bandwidth-limited systems.

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