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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[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think what you really mean is brains are not numeric. It's the "digit" part that is objectionable, not the "binary" part, which as an adjective for "digit" just means a way of encoding a portion of a number.

But in the end it's a semantic argument that really doesn't have a lot to do with the thesis.

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