Comment by calf
2 years ago
Not OP, but I'm not convinced by the talking point that a baby has an equivalent or greater petabytes of data because they are immersed in a sensory world. I can't quite put my finger on it but my feeling is that that line of reasoning contains a kind of category error. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and have a clearer idea of my objection, but I've seen your talking point echoed by many others as well, and this interests me.
What is all the “video” and “audio” and other sensory input but petabytes of data streaming into your brain? Seems like a pretty objectively measurable concept, right?