Nonsense, off Corrs ---- the amount of bits of information is completely irrelevant in this comparison - it's like comparing kilograms and pounds in one to one scale; the Reason is that to see that Wonderful World around, those pigs visual systems have to process those bits of *information* over multiple layers of neural networks, some of them recursive, then it goes into the mind and...over the hills and far far away we have our Real World. Knowledge aboot it's existance and properties. The gig. The feeling. The vibe, man...Don't even talk aboot awareness! Information is NOT knowledge is NOT awareness! Go, support Erowid.org, you will get a marvelous looking black-yellow mug that shows you that relation by image so you don't forget hwhen you wake up from another shamanic vision. The information word is BIG, the knowledge is less BIG, the awareness is the smallest of them all. Besides that the mug contain ingenious pattern of words that let you easily divine what will happen to you today if you don't take those pills the doctor did not order at all. And you will do something for the People of the Earth, man...Don't let raw numbers deceive you! Never! Think, damn it! I can do it even on 50mg of 2c-i, 4mg of alprazolam and dihydricoxid. You can do it! Don't vote for the *person* again, OK? You must admit you can't count. I can't count! That's why I write software to do it for me. The *person* would like you to memorize the multiplication table, hwhen you can easily reproduce it out of few basic axioms in no time (replace the table with something a bit harder with a name after some very important, dead person. Implemented already in libraries. Really, why *do* you study CS? ;-}}} .A. {{{-: { [We, girls of MIT (whateverwhenever your snobbish CS institution ;-} ist named) know it, now you need to catch up and *fast*] or else...}