The limits of what we can and can't do are not well-explored, nor well-bounded. For example, there was a fellow (his name escapes me at the moment) who had tra

The limits of what we can and can't do are not well-explored, nor well-bounded. For example, there was a fellow (his name escapes me at the moment) who had trained himself to be able to write a sentence with one hand while solving a mathematical equation with the other. There's a reason why our minds evolved a "unitary" identity or ego, it's evolutionarily advantageous (tautologically, sorry), but it's an illusion. You can "divide" your mind among several tasks (in other words, the brain is not like a CPU, it's more like "the cloud", yeah?) but it's not really as useful as it might seem. - - - - (FWIW, my first thought on reading the title was "This person doesn't cook." ;P )