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maxbond
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Language of fungi derived from their electrical sp...
Bitrate is a total red herring here. What matters is what computation is performed, not the rate at which it is performed. That's like saying a 4-bit microcontroller isn't a computer because it can't run Doom.
floober
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I'd think it is something like a ratio of bitrate to entropy. How quickly is information being processed relative to how quickly it is being lost?
alan-hn
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Do we know if it's being lost at all?
idiotsecant
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Yes. That's thermodynamics.
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