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I can write a comment on hackernews and have a verbal conversation at the same time (i.e. typing noises happen when mouth noises happen, no pausing or swapping)
by krageon 5y ago
I can write a comment on hackernews and have a verbal conversation at the same time (i.e. typing noises happen when mouth noises happen, no pausing or swapping) just fine. If that's not multitasking, I don't know what is. I will grant you most folks I've met or asked about it cannot do it.
- kaba0 5y agoThat works more like your brain feeding in a few words, and typing itself is muscle memory that requires no active attention. If a word doesn’t look right, it “throws an interrupt”, and you will look into it with active thought, and then quickly returning to your speech — which yet again can talk “automatically”, while it has a full buffer. Pretty much the exact same way as modern hardware works.
- krageon 5y agoThere are two options: Either you made this up out of whole cloth, or you are decades ahead of neuroscience and have single-handedly managed to find a way to prove how brains work. I think the former is a lot more plausible.