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Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds (www.techspot.com)
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Thanks to @General_Effort@lemmy.world 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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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (73 children)

Bullshit. just reading this and comprehending it, which is thought, far exceeds 10 bits per second.
Speaking which is conveying thought, also far exceed 10 bits per second.

This piece is garbage.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

You'd be surprised how litle information you need to do too much. 10 bits seems a little low to me tok, but that's splitting things into 1/1024th every second. Not bad.

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