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Speed Of Human Thought Estimated At A Puzzling 10 Bits Per Second (www.iflscience.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Live_Let_Live to c/technology

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[–] GamingChairModel 1 points 3 days ago

if we highly restrict the parameters of what information we’re looking at, we then get a possible 10 bits per second.

Not exactly. More the other way around: that human behaviors in response to inputs are only observed to process about 10 bits per second, so it is fair to conclude that brains are highly restricting the parameters of the information that actually gets used and processed.

When you require the brain to process more information and discard less, it forces the brain to slow down, and the observed rate of speed is on the scale of 5-40 bits per second, depending on the task.