Newspaper Accounts of Mental Math Marvels

Source	https://headtruth.blogspot.com/2026/07/newspaper-accounts-of-mental-math.html
Author	Mark Mahin
Published	2026-07-23, 12:00 PM
Summary	The credibility of claims that mathematical calculation comes from brains is inversely proportional to the speed and capacity and reliability at which things can be calculated. There are numerous signal slowing factors in the brain, such as the relatively slow speed of dendrites, and the cumulative effect of synaptic delays in which signals have to travel over relatively slow chemical synapses (by far the most common type of synapse in the brain). As explained in my post here, such physical fact
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