nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgpaqvffj4tmy7nu0ygznk6nfkf66ckec0p4vyj24mt4f2s8fvulsxyhujc (nprofile…hujc) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9m88z4mlv0mw6w6xdur946xh3cme8mzlvpy66l56z2eq5e7wmwgqalt7j4 (nprofile…t7j4) The article does raise some interesting thoughts. But I do not really think this reflects what we do when we play 20 questions: "If the guesser wins routinely, this suggests that the thinker can access about 2^20 ~ 1 million possible items in the few seconds allotted."
Although there may be 1M possible items we are narrowing to 1, doesn't it seem more like we rely on heuristics to try to repeatedly cut the universe in half-or-so? "Bigger than a breadbox" for example? So for the first question, I am trying to think about a handful of categories or a set of shared qualities to narrow the universe by about 50%.
Similarly if I play a word guessing game like Wordle, it's never the case that I am accessing the entire word list mentally in coming to the next guess; only when it's limited to a small number. Otherwise I use heuristics to narrow the space as efficiently as I can.
The development of these heuristics - building our wisdom up through experience so we can use heuristics effectively, maybe that's an area where we may need the outsized sensory input bandwidth? Or is most of this bandwidth really just going into brains controlling our animal bodies?
Curious what #neuroscience folk think of this?
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