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General_Effort@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Thinking Slowly: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior

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Thinking Slowly: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior

www.caltech.edu

General_Effort@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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    Link to the published paper, hosted by author: https://meisterlab.caltech.edu/documents/30072/Zheng_2024_The_unbearable_slowness_of_being-_Why_do_we_live_at_10_bitss.pdf

    Pop science writer Carl Zimmer wrote on the study in the NYT. He made his piece available as a gift article via his bsky account. https://bsky.app/profile/carlzimmer.bsky.social/post/3le7miqvjys2v

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