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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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[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Enough a proof that brains are more complex than a single processor calculating one thing at a time.

Furthermore, what about people who had lobotomy done to them? Weird things happen with two halves of the brain (now separate) "thinking" two different things at the same time!

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

That's a corpus callosotomy, not a lobotomy.

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