Speaking as one, a drummer must have something called limb independence, which means the right leg might be playing one pattern on the kick drum, left leg a dif

Speaking as one, a drummer must have something called limb independence, which means the right leg might be playing one pattern on the kick drum, left leg a different pattern on the hihat (or a double pedal etc), who knows what's going on in the hands, and yet it all has to come together and sound synchronized. This doesn't seem so different, conceptually, from managing mental models of several independent processes doing various things on various schedules, while making sure the whole distributed program acts coherently to produce the expected output. Just a theory! I don't know how much the two faculties really overlap.