{"id":13601,"date":"2025-01-06T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:23:00","slug":"the-human-vs-the-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/06\/the-human-vs-the-hare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human vs. The Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/26\/science\/speed-of-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By NYT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/The-Speed-of-Human-Thought-Lags-Far-Behind-Your-Internet-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineers measure this flow in bits per second. Streaming a high-definition video takes about&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/consumers\/guides\/broadband-speed-guide\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 million bps.<\/a>&nbsp;The download rate in a typical American home is about&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/global-index\/united-states#fixed\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">262 million bps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now researchers have estimated the speed of information flow in the human brain: just 10 bps. They titled their study,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/abstract\/S0896-6273(24)00808-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627324008080%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published this month<\/a>&nbsp;in the journal Neuron, \u201cThe unbearable slowness of being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,\u201d said Markus Meister, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the study. \u201cIf you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/26\/science\/speed-of-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds By NYT In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}