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Your conscious planner may be making 1 decision/second, but your senses, proprioception, balancing system, etc. are handing you about a gigabit/second of data, most of which never rises to your conscious attention.

When I'm reading, that's roughly 2000 bits/second, but I am engaging it with model-making systems that can completely enrapture me.

I/O is not the same as computation; conscious computation is not the same as all computation.



Yeah, that's what the paper is talking about. A whole lot of input vs. a small amount of conscious focus.




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