https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7l56sb/how_much_bandwidth_does_the_spinal_cord_have/ … "Divide that by 8 to get it in GB, and that's 16.625 GB of data per second capable of being transferred along the spinal cord. Or about a 4K movie every two seconds." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That is way too high, I think. Most of the neurons in the spinal column modulate the throughput instead of transmitting. If you look at the actual number of afferent and efferent neurons and their respective firing rates, you end up many orders of magnitude lower.
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I really have no idea and expertise about this, but I’d guess we have perhaps a couple million sensory and motor terminals in the brain. If each of those would fire with 20Hz for 10% of the time, we’d have ~4Mb/s, give or take a factor of 10? But I may be quite wrong.
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