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So this means we can think about 18 words per minute? Sounds reasonable. I don't think I think any faster than that. Could there be some other ways to measure

So this means we can think about 18 words per minute? Sounds reasonable. I don't think I think any faster than that. Could there be some other ways to measure it? Like timing myself?

schoen 5y ago
Your message here was 34 words -- did it take you two minutes to think of its content?
Stupulous 5y ago
This is a prosthetic that translates brain signals into speech at 18 wpm. Human speech is generally about 150 wpm in english. I've read that the informational output is relatively consistent between languages, so in a language like german you get bigger words and fewer wpm. Assuming that's correct, 150 english wpm is probably close to the processing speed of the brain, minus the overhead of converting thoughts to speech.