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Question, Do they have to measure a persons brain speed? I wonder what the bell curve is on society, there has to be some very fast outliers.

• danwills 2y ago
  Such a multidimensional question, I think there's probably little point in being able to boil brain speed down to one number (or even small set of numbers). There's so many parts that all combine: The rate of propagation of activation-potentials along neural dendrites (well known that caffeine speeds this up, until your brain adapts to make it 'normal speed' again by extra myelination!), there's stuff like the frequency of brainwaves, which surely must have some effect.. and then the conscious-perception of the passage of time could kinda feed in too, not to mention memory-speed or speed at tasks that have been very highly practiced. Very interesting to think about though, thanks!
  • BizarroLand 2y ago
    Also, to follow up, the question is speed in what domain? Speed reading, speed computation, speed memorization, there are many domains of the mind in which the question of speed could be applied.
  • noisem4ker 2y ago
    > caffeine speeds this up, until your brain adapts to make it 'normal speed' again by extra myelination Any more info or source on this? Thanks.