Database And Brain

According to "The Nervous System in the Context of Information Theory" by M. Zimmermann, a bandwidth of consciousness is 40bit/s at most.

How did they measure? It is a good question.

But through various researches, any conscious activities are likely bounded by the bandwidth. For example, reading, typing, playing piano, doing math, etc.

While, unconscious input is said to be more than 11 million bit/s, output is 0.1 million bit/s.

So almost all the input are lost at conscious level. And showing lots more than we think consciously.

An interesting thing is that we can feel its underlying information unconsciously. That's why I feel Clifford Brown is great, but today's players are somewhat boring.

As long as you're doing lots of things consciously, reading a book, working on a desk, what you learn is very limited. Instead, close your computer, go outside, and open all your neurons to this world!

But, it is worthwhile to read "The User Illusion" to know who you are and what you're doing.