Speed of human thought lags far behind internet connection: What does a new study say?
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Human brain processes thought at a much slower rate than the rate of information transmitted over the Internet, according to a new study.
While the speed of information flow in the human brain is just 10 bits per second (bps), a typical wi-fi connection processes 50 bps. One bit is the smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store.
The study, ‘The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?’, was published by the journal Neuron earlier this month. To carry out the analysis, the researchers examined data on human behaviours such as reading, writing, etc.
What are the findings of the study?
Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the study, told The New York Times that “It is a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is… If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.”
The researchers noted that the human brain processes sensory information from sight, smell and sound much more rapidly — about 100,000,000 times the rate that cognition does. In other words, while humans can process one thought at a time, their sensory systems — and computers — process thousands of bits of information at once. “Psychological science has not acknowledged this big conflict,” Meister told The NYT.
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