From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 20:30:08 MST
> I guess that, for example, 50 gigabytes per day should
> be sufficient to describe (simulate) all the sensory
> impressions our brains receive during a day,...
> Can somebody detect a fault in this reasoning?
WAY too small an estimate, if you ask me. Graphic image
storage and transmission is something of a specialty of
mine, so I'll try to estimate just the visual component:
Just to represent my field of vision, and no other data,
to the resolution of my retina (let's call it ~50 pixels,
which would be something like an 8kx8k large screen),
assuming very good data compression (say MPEG-2 or better,
which can get down to about 1-2MB a minute for images at
about 1/100th of that resolution), and a frame rate good
to human perception (perhaps just a bit faster than 60Hz),
I get well over 100 gigabytes a day /just for the video/.
Add all the other senses: sound, taste/smell, balance,
skin pressure, temperature, pain, propioception, and any
we haven't discovered yet, I'd say you're at least two
orders of magnitude low.
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