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"People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off" Who assumed this? It seems like a pretty stupid assumption from a cognitive standpoint.
by SamAtt 17y ago
"People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off"
Who assumed this? It seems like a pretty stupid assumption from a cognitive standpoint. Daydreaming is basically an activity where the brain has to create a whole scenario without the benefit of any outside stimulus what so ever which sounds fairly hard to me.
I was a day dreamer when I was a kid and my Mom never assumed I was stupid. The only problem with daydreaming is when you do it instead of applying yourself to the task at hand which makes this study a bit irrelevant imho.
- dkarl 17y agoI think the question is whether your brain is working on problems that aren't part of your daydream. In other words, if I'm daydreaming about Isabella Rossellini dressed up as a starfish, am I also figuring out how to improve problematic code at the same time?
- jamesbritt 17y ago" ... f I'm daydreaming about Isabella Rossellini dressed up as a starfish, ..." Have you seen the movie "Infected"? If not, you may find it, um, interesting. :)