Thinking Slowly: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior
www.caltech.edu
A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/geoff199 on 2024-12-18 14:23:23+00:00.

Original Title: Researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. But 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.