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It's 1⁢0^9 bits/s. Your title is wrong.



> The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢0^9 bits/s.

The title appears to be accurate?


Just for playing any sport the accuracy to instruct 100s of muscles to work in a certain way is certainly above that 10bits,

Pointing out positions in a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cubic volume seems to possible significantly faster than 1/s.

The slower examples listed in the table all have some externalities like a motor/object manipulation feedback loop overhead (speed cubing) and or redundacy and are not optimized for pure information density, so I have no idea why they settled on that average, and not the optimum?

Object Recognition and Reading are already at ~50 bits.

https://arxiv.org/html/2408.10234v2#S3


> Just for playing any sport the accuracy to instruct 100s of muscles to work in a certain way is certainly above that 10bits

But significant portions of that process are not done by the conscious brain, and some aren't done by the brain at all (reflex and peripheral nervous system). We don't consciously think about each of the 100 muscles we're switching on and off at rapid speed.




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