Paradox of the Mind: Why do we think slowly?

At this point, you should question the title by saying that you are a sharp person of a sharp mind, and when necessary to say fast thinking with the answer at the end of the tongue. But I say, Relatively, you work in the same range of people.

Our brain function is quite extraordinary, for each of the activities or stimuli we take, it creates unique functions that correspond to actions, thoughts and even feelings. All of these are spontaneously stimulated or processed and stored along the brain machines on demand.

However, at least consciously, you may have already noticed that you have not been able to protect or maintain all visual, auditory, taste, tactile, intersection or harmful stimuli. Our brain processes a very small and specific amount of everything he takes.

But why is this? The answer itself, we do not have it, but we can give an idea of ​​how quickly your brain will process the knowledge of this text. Come with us!

I thought at a disk speed

The study, published in Neuron magazine, explains how the processing rate of our brain can be slow compared to the sensory purchase capacity of neural paths related to our senses.

Our nervous system is filled with all kinds of billions of information data, but when our brain focuses on managing, choosing and answering all these demands, Slowly 10 -bit speed in seconds!

In order to achieve this number, the researchers performed various tests such as speed decisions of magic cubes, fast memorization capacity, writing, comprehension and defining sounds.

Since our brain does not come with a little processing meter, researchers see it as the minimum unit of each task. As a simpler example, during writing, they explained the number of words written by a professional typewriter and reached 120 words per minute.

They see each letter as a little bit and they explain the number of switches, this time they reached an estimation. There were tests with longer or shorter trading time, but this was the average period.

At certain activities such as games, the thinking processing factor was more complex, because quick clicks on controls or rats, but you don’t have to think before each click as you focus on a macro target.

The comparison between our brain and the data processing factor of a computer is not very fair and reliable, this is a fact, but when we know the ability to receive and respond, the comparison becomes interesting.

There is billions of neurons that mutually bombed to give a clear and reasonable response to each situation of a thought organization, but there is a narrow bottleneck for the emergence.

As if our brain is an Olympic information pool, with a clothing tank to discharge it. Slow and procedure.

A cerebral paradox

Nobody still defines the reason for our brain function in this way. According to the group, our slow thinking style may be associated with evolution, for example.

In a horse world, it was more likely that those who could only silence and focus on one thought or task at a time were more likely to be hunting or housing without focusing.

Since we know that our bodies have structural limitations and that we can easily injure ourselves, it can still be a protective and functional factor.

And when we talk about bodies, even if we can enjoy enough technology for the implants for the ‘improvement’ of our thought, we will still be arrested at 10 lines per second, because the implants have only contributed to capturing more information, the processing is still on our own. You can’t hurry to an artist.

An important warning to be considered: having 10 -bit processing per second in thinking formation does not mean that we use only 10% of our brain. We all use our brain functions completely.

This will not occur only in people who have brain injuries and lose some of the organ structure, but neurons in the healthy areas of the brain will reorganize tasks. This process It is known as neuroplasticity and occurs at any time of lifeHowever, it is more efficient for children and young people.

So far, there are many legends about the brain and its functioning, and today we are trying to break a few more. But don’t worry, you can still see yourself as an active mind and a fast -thinking person, it’s not as fast as you think.

Although it is a paradox, it is not great, even if there is much to have the potential to become a quantum computer and to decide to work as a child’s computer, to understand how to work and how to improve it.

Studies from Caltech contribute to how we can understand a little better about how the ‘time’ of the brain works to process and organize information. Moreover, this strengthens that there is nothing that can accelerate the time of thought.

However, to maintain brain functions, exercises are very useful to maintain the health of our thought and logical reasoning, if you think that 10 bits per second is very low, you will not want to reduce your rate further. Put the dog work!

And in mind, you may want to learn more about how your brain is organized structurally, how about reading a brain horse? Keep tracking Tecmundo and tell the other head chats you want to see here on our social networks! Until later.