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

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Thanks to @[email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ITT: A bunch of people who have never heard of information theory suddenly have very strong feelings about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If they had heard of it, we'd probably get statements like: "It's just statistics." or "It's not information. It's just a probability."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Crazy how a biological analog lump is capable of even a fraction of what a brain can do.

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