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Pretty sure absence seizures are a stoppage in brain activity undetectable by the individual but visible on a PET Scan. I do experience deep thought, where I c

Pretty sure absence seizures are a stoppage in brain activity undetectable by the individual but visible on a PET Scan. I do experience deep thought, where I can be thinking about something that is maxing out my short term memory and if someone interrupts with their voice, I have to ask them to repeat what they just said. Also very frustrating for me as it takes considerable time and focus to return to that state.

stevenjgarner 4y ago
I commiserate with the frustration of being interrupted. I will get a phone call interruption or someone knocking on my door, and all those mental registers in which I am juggling various thoughts just get instantly shuffled. Blue screen of death. Hard reset. Sometimes with complete loss of hours of work. > maxing out my short term memory is that a subjective experience where you legitimately feel you have run out of memory and cannot take in anything more?
- CodeWriter23 4y ago
  I’ve read people have 7 +/- 2 “short term” memory slots. As you put it, registers. I know at times I seem like I’m going in circles with 8 or 9 facts/ideas trying to solve something that’s when I pause and make two smaller problems and then I can get through it. Unfortunately there is no “fault” signal to engage the exception handler, I usually have to figure it out the hard way.
  - stevenjgarner 4y ago
    Fascinating. First search came up with the 5-9 STM slots [0], together with a STM duration between 15 and 30 seconds and encoding that is primarily acoustic, even translating visual information into sounds. The STM duration seems way short given the nature of most software design problems. Is the implication that we reload the data that often when we keep at something? > I pause and make two smaller problems I am assuming that is deliberate/intentional and not subliminal? If so, do you have any kind of mental algorithm for breaking things down? [0] https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html

stevenjgarner 4y ago

I commiserate with the frustration of being interrupted. I will get a phone call interruption or someone knocking on my door, and all those mental registers in which I am juggling various thoughts just get instantly shuffled. Blue screen of death. Hard reset. Sometimes with complete loss of hours of work. > maxing out my short term memory is that a subjective experience where you legitimately feel you have run out of memory and cannot take in anything more?

CodeWriter23 4y ago
I’ve read people have 7 +/- 2 “short term” memory slots. As you put it, registers. I know at times I seem like I’m going in circles with 8 or 9 facts/ideas trying to solve something that’s when I pause and make two smaller problems and then I can get through it. Unfortunately there is no “fault” signal to engage the exception handler, I usually have to figure it out the hard way.
- stevenjgarner 4y ago
  Fascinating. First search came up with the 5-9 STM slots [0], together with a STM duration between 15 and 30 seconds and encoding that is primarily acoustic, even translating visual information into sounds. The STM duration seems way short given the nature of most software design problems. Is the implication that we reload the data that often when we keep at something? > I pause and make two smaller problems I am assuming that is deliberate/intentional and not subliminal? If so, do you have any kind of mental algorithm for breaking things down? [0] https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html