#Neuroscience again (older link) …

« Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies' sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a billion bits per second, which is 100 million times faster than our thought processes […] Why can we only think one thing at a time while our sensory systems process thousands of inputs at once ? » 🤔

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

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Thinking Slowly: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior

A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.

California Institute of Technology