From that article:
The Limits of Our Digital Senses
A human ear can hear sounds that, if digitized, take about one megabit per second to be absolutely perfect. That's the data rate for CD music. If we take advantage of compression (we should and we do) this drops to about 100 kilobits per second for excellent-quality MP3 audio.
A human eye can accept an input of about one million pixels per second containing 24 bits of color at 30 frames per second. This is what computer screens can produce today. Looking at the raw bit rate, this is one gigabit per second. If we compress the video to the level of digital satellite transmissions, we need about five megabits per second to produce really great video quality for the human eye.
Smell and taste are less data intensive, and I believe we can estimate that their bandwidth needs will one day be similar to those of vision and hearing. However, I suspect we will find that our sense of touch will require enormous amounts of bandwidth when tactile teleportation technology is ultimately developed.....
For ease of future reference:
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard University, hypothesizes that people are capable of seven unique ways of information processing. Information processing is the person's preferred intellectual approach to assimilating facts, information, and knowledge. Gardner suggests that individuals should be encouraged to apply their preferred intelligences in learning. Learners who have an understanding of their own particular learning styles can reflect on how to utilize their learning strengths and cultivate their less dominant ones. A key point in multiple intelligence theory is that most people can develop all seven of the intelligences to a relatively competent level of mastery.
The seven intelligences in Gardner's model are all considered to be cognitive capacities. They include the following seven categories. You can learn about the different intelligences by reading the material below. To "test" your level of the seven Multiple Intelligences, click on the seven names here:
The Essence of the Intelligences
1) Linguistic-Verbal Intelligence - THINKS WITH WORDS
This intelligence is our capacity to use words effectively, both orally and in writing, as a vehicle of expression and communication. It is also our ability to learn from reading the printed word, and listening to others convey information through speaking. Linguistic intelligence includes the ability to manipulate the syntax and structure of language, such as:
Rhetoric - to convince
Mnemonics - to remember
Explanation - to inform
Metalanguage - to use language to discuss language
2) Logical-Mathematical Intelligence - THINKS WITH QUESTIONS
This intelligence is our capacity to think logically, to use numbers effectively, to solve problems scientifically, and to discern relationships and patterns between concepts and objects. We use this intelligence when we engage in activities such as making lists, setting priorities, and making future plans.
3. Visual-Spatial Intelligence - THINKS IN IMAGES
This intelligence is our ability to think visually and orient ourselves spatially - our ability to perceive the visual - spatial world accurately. This includes our sensitivity to colour, line, shape, form, space and the relationships between these. It is our capacity to "see" and to graphically represent visual and spatial ideas. It is our appreciation and recognition of how a selected object would look from another viewing angle, for instance, if turned around.
4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence - THINKS WITH MOVEMENT
This intelligence is our capacity to use our bodies in highly differentiated and skilled ways, for expression as well as for goal - directed purposes. It includes our fine and gross motor movements, sense of timing, and direction. It is also our physical coordination, balance, dexterity, strength, speed, flexibility, and proprioceptive, tactile, and haptic capacities.
5. Musical Intelligence - THINKS WITH MUSIC
This intelligence is our capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform, and express musical forms. This includes our sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, melody, timbre, and tone colour. It is our capacity to appreciate a variety of musical forms as well as using music as a vehicle of expression. This intelligence is active when we use tones and rhythmic patterns (either instrumental, environmental, and/or human - made) to communicate how we are feeling and what we believe (for instance, intense joy, fear, excitement).
6. Intrapersonal Intelligence - THINKS BY REFLECTION
This intelligence allows us to tap our inner being - to discover who we are, what feelings we have, and why we are the way the way we are. It represents our self - knowledge and our ability to act adaptively on the basis of this knowledge. It is our reflective self. People with well - developed intrapersonal intelligence have an accurate picture of their inner self - their strengths and weaknesses, their inner moods, goals, intentions, motivations, temperament, beliefs, and desires. They have the capacity to cultivate superb self - discipline, self - understanding, and high self - esteem.
7. Interpersonal Intelligence - THINKS BY SOCIALIZING
This intelligence is our capacity to interact with others, to understand them, and to interpret their behaviour accurately. It is our ability to notice distinctions among other people, and to recognize their moods, temperaments, motivations, and intentions. It is our sensitivity to other's facial expressions, voices, and gestures, and our ability to respond effectively to these cues. It is our capacity to appropriately and effectively respond to other people and to understand them.
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