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System: sensory systems |
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The sensory systems are information feedback systems of the body, including the skin, the eyes, the ears, the mouth and the nose. |
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These sensory organs provide a dual role of processing information about surroundings and substances to enable the human organism as a whole to react to opportunity and/or impending danger. |
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Human sense ranging and information gathering
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The various human senses of taste, touch, sight, smell and hear vary according to the range of utility, speed of information, volume of information processed per second and storage. The following is a rough estimate on the effective range and velocity of information to the senses.
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| Radius of static ranging |
Dynamic velocity |
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(speed of information) |
| Touch 1/1,600 km |
16 km/h |
| Smell 1.6 km |
640 km/hr |
| Hear and speak 160 km |
1,760 km/hr |
| Visual 15.1 million million million km |
990,000km/sec |
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One light year is 9.4 million million km and humans see Andromeda with the naked eye 1.6 million light years away.
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A theoretical model on the capacity of one human eye |
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Given the shift between detail observed (information per square cm) versus arc of observation, we can conclude a theoretical relationship of say 2000Dpi x maximum arc area of an eye (16 sq cm) every 3,000th of a second. If we say that for each Dpi, approximately 50 bytes of information is needed then our theoretical maximum information processing capacity of one eye is around 4,800,000,000 bytes or 9.6 Gigabytes (Gb) per second. If we double that figure for two eyes, then a theoretical explanation for sight capacity is around 9.6Gb, per second.
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