Nicole RustCommunication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex
The brain is the hungriest organ in the body (using 20% of all energy consumed). But most of it is not used for "computing"; it's used to send messages around.
psybertron@NicoleCRust
Though I could argue (and often do) that sending messages around (communication) is part of computation, part of processing information.
Processing which modifies its topology / relationships / arrangements, even if semantic content aspects remain unchanged. Though in fact communications will process its syntactic symbolic / representation form too :-)
Jocelyn EtienneI am interested... from a very practical #sociology of organisations perspective.
For our #university #governance we have pushed fwd #decentralisation with several levels of #collegiality - eg research dept and schools need to agree on the profile of new #academic recruits.
But in such a decentralised-yet-unified organisation, managers find that the time spent in communication increases tremendously.
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That's quite normal: if you double actors to make a decision and they need to talk to one another, you have 4x more of those talks. Maybe more if you need consensus (that is, an implicit resolution vs explicit in maths terms).
So that's a loss. We need to quantify the *gain*, and we believe it's the quality of the decisions: so there's an actual *processing* in the fact of having those communications. But I find it hard to define precisely.
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@jocelyn_etienne @NicoleCRust @academicchatter
I too am interested in the human organisational (cybernetics) behaviours, and using an information-ontology-based "systems-thinking" view. (Do you know the "active inference" community?)
I too am interested in the human organisational (cybernetics) behaviours, and using an information-ontology-based "systems-thinking" view. (Do you know the "active inference" community?)
@psybertron @NicoleCRust @academicchatter
I discover it with your message - although I see that in a sense it could be related with my research field (which is biophysics at the cell/tissue scale).
In terms of organisations, I should make clear that my interest is (so far) completely outside my research field, I have approached this only as a practitioner taking part in discussions with managers/observing.
But now that makes two reasons to read some stuff about active inference.