Your brain is much, much, MUCH slower than your Internet connection, new study shows

There is "endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is," says California Institute of Technology neuroscientist Markus Meister. "If you actually try to put numbers to it, we are incredibly slow."

In a new scientific paper, titled "The unbearable slowness of being," Meister's lab reveals that the speed of information in y…