Now we know:
”Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second.“
10 bits/sec is remarkably slow. Oh, and #multitasking is definitely off the table.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior
@gisiger Now, maybe I should read the article and so on. But I'm on the phone and I should switch on the computer to do that.
At 10 bits/second that would likely take me a month or two...
I read your post in around 5 seconds; just the amount of text is more than 50 bits. Moreover I understood, which is significantly more than 50 bits.
How did they even come up with such a number, and how do you evaluate brain processing power in terms of bits?
A very good way to justify throwing away a fair bit of grant money and make a headline, but frankly I have no interest in reading the paper.
