Willem2022 Posted December 17, 2022 Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) Does anyone know this is true? I am reading the popular book Atomic Habits (chapter 6) and it says: "The human body has about eleven million sensory receptors. Approximately ten million of those are dedicated to sight." The original source where the above information is from says: "Consider that at any given moment, our five senses are taking in more than 11,000,000 pieces of information. Scientists have determined this number by counting the receptor cells each sense organ has and the nerves that go from these cells to the brain. Our eyes alone receive and send over 10,000,000 signals to our brains each second." ('Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious' by Timothy D. Wilson, p.24.) Isn't it true that receptors and signals per seconds are 2 different things? The original source is talking about 10 million signals; Atomic Habits says there are 10 million receptors. Aren't the writers talking about 2 different things? Is the author of Atomic Habit interpreting this wrong or am I? Edited December 17, 2022 by Willem2022
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