Corrected bit/symbol error for playing cards now brings points on memory graph for cards and decimal digits closer together   more »

Black Box model - Judge by measured performance, not by what someone tells you! + PC Analogy   more »

The Extra Terrestrials want to know if we are capable of learning from them   more »

the interface sits somewhere between the hard-wired neural processing behind the eyes, ears, and other sensors, and the inner processing related to consciousness   more »

The only thing that the brain needs to do quickly, is to work out whether to flinch away   more »

"Surely we're designed for looking at certain patterns of information"   more »

Your tests make an assumption about being limited by a communications bottleneck, rather than memory speed.   more »

"How do we know the 4-letter words that we initially failed to remember are not acquired or transferred to the brain cells?"   more »

"The memory test examples are untypical for humans. Surely we are much faster at other tasks?"   more »

"Doesn’t our intelligence increase the amount of information we can take in through our senses?"   more »

"The human mind has massive parallelism; doesn’t that mean that we take in so much more?"   more »

"When I perceive a scene or an object, don’t I take in a huge amount of information?"   more »

There is little evidence that our human mind can absorb more than a few bits per second of truly novel information. This is shockingly small. Where is the evidence to the contrary?   more »