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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago

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