I’m curious, for those interested in Neuralink type things: why do people assume that the brain can generate thoughts and intentions faster than speech? 

Speech: 125-150 WPM
Typing: 65-75 WPM

Wouldn’t we have evolved some level of parity whereby we more or less think in language at roughly the rate of speech?

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

I did my degree in psych and courses in language processing, the TLDR is that your brain knows what you want before you want it, because it has to signal action to the body. 

There’s a set rate of xyz milliseconds of thoughts to speech, e.g. forming thought takes 1ms, firing takes 2ms, speech production takes 5s etc

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don’t quote me on those milliseconds though but that’s the broad process lol