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

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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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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

In fact, the 10 bits per second are needed only in worst-case situations, and most of the time our environment changes at a much more leisurely pace."

Bruh some tech pro is going to read this and interpret this in a terrible fashion but then again humans already change our environment.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 1 day ago

what

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

So the article is going with humans only think as fast because evolution determines this speed was sufficient. So if i was highly misguided individual wanting to up the average human speed we need to create an environment where there is a need to process data faster. Sounds like a horror cyber punk but in reality human progress is super fast now relative to 10k years ago. So the change may happen naturally.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, you have the full text of the paper?? Please share it! We'd like to read it for ourselves.

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