I'm not sure that base 10 is wired into our brains. It's probably the case that we're just used to base 10. The reason why it's can be so hard to read numbers

I'm not sure that base 10 is wired into our brains. It's probably the case that we're just used to base 10. The reason why it's can be so hard to read numbers in base 8 or some other base out loud is that you have to convert it to base 10 to say it because we use . . . base 10. (Though you can get around this by reading the numbers as though they were in written base 10---I had a professor who did this with hexadecimal.)