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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Our senses take in about 80,000 bits of information per second. We can only consciously process about 50 bits. So there is a lot more unconscious knowledge than there is conscious knowledge.

      source? stimuli <> K and that's a very big diff: 4 orders of magnitude.

  2. Dec 2020
  3. Apr 2019
    1. “Under normal conditions people react to a threat with a temporary increase in their stress hormones. As soon as the threat is over, the hormones dissipate and the body returns to normal. The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli. The insidious effects of constantly elevated stress hormones include memory and attention problems, irritability, and sleep disorders. They also contribute to many long-term health issues, depending on which body system is most vulnerable in a particular individual.”
  4. Oct 2015