{"id":24431,"date":"2025-06-16T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=24431"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:06:44","slug":"are-we-really-thinking-at-10-bits-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/06\/are-we-really-thinking-at-10-bits-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we really thinking at 10 bits\/s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.10234v2\">funny paper at arXiv<\/a>, that is now published in Neurology. It claims to have found a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits\/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ~10^9 bits\/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained and touches on fundamental aspects of brain function: What neural substrate sets this speed limit on the pace of our existence? Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits\/s? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there are really two brains, an &#8220;outer&#8221; brain with fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals and an &#8220;inner&#8221; brain that does are the processing?\u00a0 My inner brain says this is a huge speculation.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 26.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a funny paper at arXiv, that is now published in Neurology. It claims to have found a neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits\/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ~10^9 bits\/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/06\/are-we-really-thinking-at-10-bits-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are we really thinking at 10 bits\/s?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25325,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions\/25325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}