Re: More on human brain vs computer metaphor...

From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 06:21:23 MDT


On Tue, 7 May 2002, YP Fun wrote:

>The whole concept of threading is beyond
>nature. Is there anything in nature capable of
>multithreading. All human beings are singly
>threaded. We live life over a single thread.
>We can NEVER do two things at the same time
>at any given time.

I disagree. From personal experience, I know that I am able to listen to
two conversations at the same time (works better if the voices
are very different, and if one is on the right and the other on the left).
This also discards all the "automatic" actions, like walking, eating and
scratching my nose while reading a book and avoiding cars, all at the same
time (don't try it, it's dangerous :-)

Ciao,
Alfio



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