The bizarre patterns of rapid flashes and bursts in the X-ray source MXB 1730-335 (Rapid Burster) have been puzzling researchers for two decades; especially intriguing are its peculiarities in the time-invariant decay profiles of many type II bursts of the Rapid Burster. We have discovered that they are similar to certain regularities found in cognitive psychology, suggesting an analogy between the activity of the Rapid Burster and the cognitive activity of the human mind.
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