Saturday 13 August 2011
Our brains are awesome
Ok so the fact that our brains are awesome is pretty well known so I just wanna touch one thing. Think about txting, I know it's not exactly a brain taxing activity however think about it you txt on top of many other tasks. I tend to think of our multitasking ability sort of similar to the iOS multitasking, it's not really running everything at the same time it only makes it seem like it by saving the programs state then closes that task, then opens the next one. With this similarity think about how you txt, you pause the task your doing and then txt yet we somehow remember almost every separate conversation and continue it then go back to our previous task. This may not sound like an amazing thing but you do this without even trying. The human is very clever without you even noticing. And that's just a simple thing it does. A mere memory operation. Think about everything else it does, it's a clever grey blob so take care of it.
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That relates very much to something my grade 12 English teacher once mentioned, about how we never really multi-task, but how we simply switch tasks at a very rapid pace, giving the illusion of doing several things at the same time. I believe this was on the topic of when the province introduced the no talking on cell phones while driving law. What brought this up was that hands free devices were still allowed and so it isn't that we had something in our hands that caused car crashes, it was that our attention was elsewhere and not on the road as a conversation requires a lot of attention and focus.
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