Can you complete the sentence?

“I think slowly because … “

I know of only one person who thinks more slowly than I do, and that’s someone with a severe brain injury from a car accident. There are people who think at least ten times as fast as I do.

Every now and then I come up with a possible reason why I think so slowly, but I’m not happy with any of the explanations. So I’m asking to see if you come up with one of the explanations that I’ve guessed. Or something completely different.

Why do different people think at different speeds?

mollwollfumble said:

Can you complete the sentence?

“I think slowly because … “

I know of only one person who thinks more slowly than I do, and that’s someone with a severe brain injury from a car accident. There are people who think at least ten times as fast as I do.

Every now and then I come up with a possible reason why I think so slowly, but I’m not happy with any of the explanations. So I’m asking to see if you come up with one of the explanations that I’ve guessed. Or something completely different.

Why do different people think at different speeds?

Maybe your thought velocity measurement procedures have a different benchmark when operating on thoughts inside your own head?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Can you complete the sentence?

“I think slowly because … “

I know of only one person who thinks more slowly than I do, and that’s someone with a severe brain injury from a car accident. There are people who think at least ten times as fast as I do.

Every now and then I come up with a possible reason why I think so slowly, but I’m not happy with any of the explanations. So I’m asking to see if you come up with one of the explanations that I’ve guessed. Or something completely different.

Why do different people think at different speeds?

Maybe your thought velocity measurement procedures have a different benchmark when operating on thoughts inside your own head?

No.

Possibilities I’ve come up with over the years are:

• There’s a weak link between my brain and my mouth
• There’s a weak link between my brain and my brain
• My thoughts are being slowed by suppressed emotions
• My brain is full
• This is typical for couch potatoes, through lack of use
• I have always had an earworm running 24/7

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Maybe your thought velocity measurement procedures have a different benchmark when operating on thoughts inside your own head?

No.

How can you know that?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Maybe your thought velocity measurement procedures have a different benchmark when operating on thoughts inside your own head?

No.

How can you know that?

I din’t for most ofd my life.

Then I met somebody else who was also intelligent.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

No.

How can you know that?

I din’t for most ofd my life.

Then I met somebody else who was also intelligent.

mollwollfumble said:

I know of only one person who thinks more slowly than I do, and that’s someone with a severe brain injury from a car accident.

You seem to be changing your story.

Hello Rev

Brett

Whist I respect M’s background, education and acheivements .
How do you know how quickly other people think ?

perhaps a more scientific perspective on this matter could reference things like

• neural firing rate
• parallel processing
• speed-accuracy tradeoff

but maybe not tonight

SCIENCE said:

perhaps a more scientific perspective on this matter could reference things like

• neural firing rate
• parallel processing
• speed-accuracy tradeoff

but maybe not tonight

Neural firing rate related to depression, perhaps.
Or nutrition / drugs. Insufficient coffee?

For parallel processing.
I’m thinking partly about competition, too much neural activity of the wrong type, like the earworm.

Speed-accuracy trade-off. Nice of you to suggest that.
An example would bhe the inclusion of multiple self-checking feedback loops.

mollwollfumble said:

SCIENCE said:

perhaps a more scientific perspective on this matter could reference things like

• neural firing rate
• parallel processing
• speed-accuracy tradeoff

but maybe not tonight

Speed-accuracy trade-off. Nice of you to suggest that.
An example would the the inclusion of multiple self-checking feedback loops.

I’ll go along with:
C) Over-Thinking just about everything
I’m guilty of 2nd, 3rd & even 4th guessing myself, making decisions is a long slog.