Mind Data Capacity

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The information processing power of our mind is huge, but the conscious mind has a very limited capacity. In other words, we can only consciously think of and manage very few things at the same time.

When we express the capacity of our conscious mind into computer 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 :

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 :

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 )

i found this intriguing that somone has measured our senses in terms of bits and byte's

think it is 8 bits to a byte.

from philippe's (member) blog: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/profile/PhilippeDavidBoukobza

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