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I think we can do some limited degree of parallelism. We can walk/run and talk at the same time. We can walk and operate a phone at the same time (albeit more p
by jrootabega 4y ago
I think we can do some limited degree of parallelism. We can walk/run and talk at the same time. We can walk and operate a phone at the same time (albeit more poorly). Our two arms can work in parallel - rub your belly and pat your head. Or, for a better example, driving a manual transmission car -- you can shift gears, and modulate your steering and speed at the same time.
In the mental world, you can also listen to a couple conversations at once with effort.
- jskulski 4y agoThis level of parallelism feels more like my brain is abstracting two tasks into one. It takes a little practice and then you gain that ability
- jrootabega 4y agoInteresting observation. Are you saying there IS a feeling of doing two things in parallel that you just don't feel for those tasks? Maybe that is what parallelism feels like. But on the other hand, would I say that walking is itself parallel because it uses two legs, two feet, and two arms all doing things at once? I guess not.
- jrootabega 4y agoAnother one: turning the handle on my popcorn cooker and hitting microwave buttons to melt butter. Steering with one hand and changing radio stations with the other. One that I feel I can't do at all: hit a keyboard key really fast with one hand and hit another one more slowly with another. Unless I treat it like playing drums in a specific rhythm, my fast hand has to stop briefly to let my slow hand hit its key.