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"Entity" can be anything that processes information.
Examples can include an ipad, a human child, a
chicken, or a calculator.
"information" can be
any
data in any quality, quantity, or form. Examples can
include the actual sight of the grand canyon, a paper
about
agriculture printed
on paper, the visual of a nude of Lucy
Liu on a computer screen, or an .mp3 on rotating
magnetic
storage.
"k" means a thousand of something.
Used
here it refers to a thousand bits
For a given
entity
and a given set of information it should be possible to
describe approximate information absorption ability the
entity will have in a given time and the likely
information
absorption activity the entity will exhibit under the
circumstance.
For example under any
circumstances the usable information a chicken would
get
from each of the examples above are, respectively:"big
space there","squiggles that probably aren't
bugs","surface",and (no information obtainable).
I
propose describing that quantity of information as a
minimum and maximum number of bits. Since a chicken
can process dimensions more poorly as distance
increases
the view of the grand canyon would represent only a few
bits. In contrast a digital camera, while being less
intelligent than a chicken could store magabits of
information from the same input. The paper on
agriculture
would represent between the number of squiggles a
smart
chicken can remember and the number of squiggles a
dumb chicken can remember. The nude would represent
about the same amount of information for any chicken
since it's not going to process it as a picture. The .mp3
could not tell a chicken anything. So for a chicken for
those data quantities may be 10 bits, 150-400 bits, 40
bits, 0 bits.
This measurement would be more
useful when the approximate amount of usable
information
a person can receive is considered. While there are
orders
of magnitude of difference in the abilities of different
people to process different information, describing the
person more closely gives a closer approximation of the
amount of information she can get from a given input.
At an extreme end of the analysis one may say that
a
20 year old intelligent plumber who has a high school
education and little other work experience probably can
use 2k-8k, 10k-20k, 1k-4k, and 0k from the inputs
described above.
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Wait, I'm still wondering about the chicken. And that Jimi Hendrix song holds a special significance for me. |
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I would be interested to see a conversion factor for
different types of data entering a human mind. For
instance, the brain stores memories completly different
from a computer, so how much "storage space" does a view
of the grand canyon use in a human, and how much space
on a computer would be required to store the same
amount of information? |
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Sometimes A cannot be quantified in terms of B. This would be one of those cases. |
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