The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust.
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
An individual's ability to draw is. . . the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.
I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.
We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little andornot calculations. We're hacking into the universe.
In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.
Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.