Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds

[captaincranky]

I posted a comment of 200 bytes 2 hours ago. Its not shown yet. My brain is working faster than that, so I am happy.

Patience Forumhopper, I think one of the P-4s in the server is blown out.

Jus' kiddin' mods.

 

[Nintenboy01]

On a somewhat related note, check out the animated series Pantheon - it's super good

 

[jeffbert]

Hmm. I never got anywhere near this stuff in the class on the biological basis for behavior, or words to that effect. Neurons & synapses, I remember, but this stuff is new. Perhaps I should have had PSYC as a major rather than a minor.

Interesting discussion, thanks, all!

 

[takemaru]

If 10 bits = 1.25 bytes = 1.25 letters, I just read this article at a lot faster than 10bps. Thinking the study is rubbish took no extra time.

Have you read past the title? The emphasis was on >thinking<, they have filtred out sensory data, which is most of what the brain does.
It's more like, how fast you can do Boolean calculations.

 

[Bernmeister]

Have you read past the title? The emphasis was on >thinking<, they have filtred out sensory data, which is most of what the brain does.
It's more like, how fast you can do Boolean calculations.

Or read morse code. Even after training the speeds are quite low.

 

[Jyanendra]

Information processing in the brain is indeed fascinating.
To think this this slow wet processor could produce silicon-based processors that work billions of times faster, is awesome.

 

[Bernmeister]

Information processing in the brain is indeed fascinating.
To think this this slow wet processor could produce silicon-based processors that work billions of times faster, is awesome.

That is the beauty of the human brain. The ability to produce powerful tools. From the flint axe to the hydrogen bomb. A long time ago Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Turing said that machines could eventually compete with humans on equal terms in any field covered by the human intellect. But original thinking is the ability to generate new ideas or solutions without being explicitly trained on them. That rules out AI.

 

[takemaru]

That is the beauty of the human brain. The ability to produce powerful tools. From the flint axe to the hydrogen bomb. A long time ago Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Turing said that machines could eventually compete with humans on equal terms in any field covered by the human intellect. But original thinking is the ability to generate new ideas or solutions without being explicitly trained on them. That rules out AI.

Humans need 10 years of training to develop from a drooling infant into a something, which doesn't ***** itself in the modern environment.