{"id":201854,"date":"2024-12-18T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:24:31","slug":"the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace","title":{"rendered":"The Human Brain Operates at a Stunningly Slow Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5pgAM26wuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/rachel-nuwer\/\">Rachel Nuwer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about this \u201cbandwidth problem,\u201d as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x5pgAM26wuM\">described it<\/a> to podcaster Joe Rogan. Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered by the slow speed of speaking or writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation. By Rachel Nuwer People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}