# The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s

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**Category:** Neuroscience, Psychology, and Health\
**Created:** [December 27, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-unbearable-slowness-of-being-why-do-we-live-at-10-bits-s/99189 "2024-12-27T01:06:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jmsmithpsyd](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@Jmsmithpsyd](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Jmsmithpsyd)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-unbearable-slowness-of-being-why-do-we-live-at-10-bits-s/99189/1 "2024-12-27T01:06:30Z")

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Pretty interesting new study about how fast we think and remember. They used memory world records as part of their analyses.

> **[Thinking Slowly: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior](https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior)**
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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.