Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It's a Big Surprise

The speed of the human brain's ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to scientists, we're not as mentally quick as we might like to think.In fact, research suggests our brains process information at a speed of just 10 bits per second. But how is this possible, in comparison to the trillions of operations computers can perform every second?

Research suggests this is the result of how we internally process thoughts in single file, making for a slow, congested queue.

This stands in stark contrast to the way the peripheral nervous system operates, amassing sensory data at gigabits a second in parallel, magnitudes higher than our paltry 10-bit cognitive computer.

To neurobiologists Jieyu Zheng and Markus Meister from the California Institute of Technology, this mismatch in sensory input and processing speed poses something of a mystery.

"Every moment, we are extracting just 10 bits from the trillion that our senses are taking in and using those 10 to perceive the world around us and make decisions," says Meister.“This raises a paradox: What is the brain doing to filter all of this information?"

In their recently published paper, Zheng and Meister raise a clear defense of the suggestion that in spite of the richness of the scenery in our mind's eye, the existence of photographic memory, and the potential of unconscious processing, our brains really do operate at a mind-numbingly slow pace that rarely peaks above tens of bits a second.

According to the researchers, solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded requires processing of just under 12 bits a second. Playing the strategy computer game StarCraft at a professional level? Around 10 bits a second. Reading this article? That might stretch you to 50 bits a second, at least temporarily.Assuming it's true, the pair lay out the state of research on the disparity between our "outer brain's" processing of external stimuli and the "inner brain's" calculations, demonstrating just how little we know about our own thinking.

"The current understanding is not commensurate with the enormous processing resources available, and we have seen no viable proposal for what would create a neural bottleneck that forces single-strand operation," the authors write.

Knowing how our brains evolved could give us insights into both improving artificial intelligence and shaping it to suit our especially particular neural architecture. At the very least, it could reveal the deeper benefits of slowing down and approaching the world one simple question at a time.This perspective was published in Neuron.

科学家量化东说念主类念念维速率，着力令东说念主大为诧异在一项新的征询中，东说念主类大脑料理信息的速率获得了讨论。科学家默示，咱们的念念维速率可能并莫得咱们自觉得的那么快。内容上，征询标明咱们的大脑每秒仅能料理10比特的信息。但与野心计每秒能进行数万亿次运算比较，这怎样可能呢？征询标明，这是由于咱们在大脑里面以单列神志料理念念维，从而导致队伍徐徐且拥挤。这与周围神经系统的运作神志形成了赫然对比，周围神经系统每秒能并行网罗千兆比特的感官数据，比咱们痛惜的每秒10比特的领会技能普及许大皆量级。对于加州理工学院的神经生物学家郑洁宇（Jieyu Zheng）和马库斯·迈斯特（Markus Meister）来说，这种感官输入与料理速率的不匹配是一个谜。迈斯特说：“每一刻，咱们从感官接受的万亿比特信息中仅索要10比特，并用这10比特来感知周围的寰球并作念出决议。”“这就产生了一个悖论：大脑是怎样过滤通盘这些信息的呢？”在他们最近发表的论文中，郑洁宇和迈斯特明确复古这么一种不雅点：尽管咱们脑海中的气候丰富多彩，存在影相式顾虑，以及存在无厚实料理的潜能，但咱们的大脑如实以一种慢得令东说念主麻痹的速率启动，其速率小数能特等每秒几十比特。据征询东说念主员称，蒙眼规复魔方每秒需要料理不到12比特的信息。以专科水平玩计谋电脑游戏《星际争霸》呢？约莫每秒10比特。阅读这篇著述？这可能会使你达到每秒50比特，至少是暂时的。假定这一情况属实，两东说念主论述了对于咱们“外脑”对外部刺激的料理与“内脑”野心之间互异的征询近况，这标明咱们对本人念念维的了解是何等少。作家写说念：“现在的通晓与可用的纷乱料理资源不相等，并且咱们还莫得看到对于是什么形成了迫使单链操作的神经瓶颈的可行提倡。”了解大脑的进化神志不错让咱们深切了解怎样修订东说念主工智能，并使其顺应咱们特有的神经结构。至少，这不错揭示减速脚步、一次料理一个简便问题的更深端倪的益处。这一不雅点发表于《神经元》杂志。

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