Nobody would argue with the premise that the human brain is a wonder of biological engineering. It composes only 2% of our body weight, but consumes around 20% of our oxygen supply, blood flow, and energy. Some 100 billion neurons can process 11 million bits of information per second. But our conscious processing only can handle around 50 bits per second, so most of what our brain is doing is invisible to us. In many ways our brain is self‐organizing. It seeks to categorize a flood of incoming information store it where it can be effectively retrieved, and connect it to seemingly related information previously stored. Much of this subconscious neural processing takes place while we sleep, giving rise to the adage that you should “sleep on it” before making decisions.

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是的，即使是科学家也有偏见

没有人会以人脑是生物工程学的奇迹为前提进行争论。它仅占我们体重的2％，但消耗约20％的氧气，血流和能量。大约1000亿个神经元每秒可以处理1100万位信息。但是我们有意识的处理只能每秒处理约50位，因此我们大脑的大部分操作对我们都是不可见的。在许多方面，我们的大脑都是自组织的。它试图对输入信息的泛滥进行分类，将其存储在可以有效检索的位置，并将其与先前存储的看似相关的信息联系起来。这种潜意识的神经处理大部分发生在我们睡觉时，这引起了格言，您应该在做出决定之前“睡在它上面”。