And what are the implications? There are a variety of benchmarks for computer processing. An article in September 2019 Science Advances, Different languages, similar encoding efficiency, by Coupe et al estimates human information transmission at 39 bits per second. A 2007 PNAS article by Allen, Gillooly, Savage and Brown estimates correlation between metabolic rate and speciation. One would think that the rate of genetic change is far slower than human information transmission. Are there other possible sources of comparison?
Dr Nepal,
Thank you for your reply.
The September 2019 article referred to in the question suggests an average information transmission rate of 39 bits per second.
Suppose this approximates the average individual human processing rate. For certain kinds of problems, computer processing rates are much faster. Another rate is the rate at which DNA changes. Different rates of change for different systems imply different emergent attributes, and different ways that they interact with each other. For example, given the processing rate of computers, human societies obtain economic advantages by investing in faster computer processing. Given the slowness of individual human processing, networked human societies have processing advantages over individuals. Given the rate at which genetic change occurs, networked human cultural change has advantages over the evolution of new species.
You ask, about the context. I am not sure where a comparison of rates leads, the question posed is for now still amorphous and I hope perhaps some readers will improve the context.
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