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Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds (www.techspot.com)

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Thanks to @[email protected] for the links!

Here’s a link to Caltech’s press release: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

Here’s a link to the actual paper (paywall): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0

Here’s a link to a preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I could believe that we take 10 decisions based on pre-learned information per second, but we must be able to ingest new information at a much quicker rate.

I mean: look at an image for a second. Can you only remember 10 things about it?

It's hard to speculate on such a short and undoubtedly watered down, press summary. You'd have to read the paper to get the full nuance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't see any point in linking to the paper since you have to pay to access it, but here you go if you want to do that:

https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Send the DOI to a science nexus search bot on Telegram and you'll get the paper.

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