I have read that it is estimated that an adult makes approximately 35,000 conscious decisions each day (Sahakian and LaBuzetta, 2013). But I could not find out such description in that book (Sahakian, B., LaBuzetta, J.N., 2013. Bad Moves: How Decision Making Goes Wrong, and the Ethics of Smart Drugs. OUP Oxford. Schafer, W., 1996. Stress Management for Wellness.)
I want to know the appropriate reference. Somebody knows ?
On the other hand, what does conscious decision mean? To be able to count them, one should be able to define what they are.
Conscious means being in working memory - the storage with the 7+-2 items capacity. Making a decision related to working memory might mean evaluate these items and then pick the one with an optimum value.
35000 things per day is one thing in 0.4 seconds.
There is a paper by TingTing Wu et al. where the authors estimate 3 to 4 bits per second.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27659950/
With 3 bits you can denote one item out of 8, with 4 bits you can denote two times an item out of 4, so the number 35000 is plausible.
Regards,
Joachim
The number with three zero at the end commonly use in our currency.
Rupiah (Rp.)
There are already many trial to diminish these three zero (000).
But until now our Rupiah still exist with three zero at the last numbers.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/04/jaws-35000-feet-falling-torri-newman-debut-novel-terror-skies
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