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comment by Charlie Steiner · 2020-04-20T06:47:27.642Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Not my favorite idea, sorry. Bandwidth doesn't make much sense unless you compare apples to apples in the time domain, and if you do that carefully I think you'll find that the conversion from space to time exactly cancels out the supposed extra factor of L in the scaling, assuming a constant speed of neural signals. In short, I'm pretty sure common sense prevails here, and the analogy to fractals is just kind of a distraction.

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comment by lsusr · 2020-04-20T07:12:19.175Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Whoops! Thank you. That should be "information content", not "data-rate". The original post was also missing an important section on attenuation. I have corrected both errors.