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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #20 on: 08/11/2016 18:49:51 »
So what the f* am I arguing for :) How about a 'holographic' mind and 'indeterminism' :) What ever makes anyone expect them not to exist at a human level too? If that's the way physics goes then they apply to us too.
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #21 on: 08/11/2016 19:59:02 »
Quote from: yor_on on 08/11/2016 09:36:44
And BC, that you can do two things, doesn't state that they are done 'simultaneously'. Two conscious chains of thoughts at the same time is a overkill. A computer can do a lot of stuff that to us seem as 'simultaneous' but the output is still serial.
The brain's processing is so massively parallel that it almost always does things "simultaneously".
Driving a car and talking are both continuous processes; you can't stop doing one while you switch to the other.

Part of the reason that computers can do things simultaneously is that they often have more than 1 processor.
So what?
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #22 on: 09/11/2016 14:48:20 »
Parallel computing, is that what you're thinking of BC? I'm likening our conscious thoughts to a serial output, created through what I call indeterminism, not parallel computing. It's not that we don't use logical chains when thinking, but for the strongest 'aha experiences' you may make a jump, and only afterwards bind it logically and consciously.
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As for whatever 'holographic' involved, it's the way communication seems so spread out inside a brain, activating so many areas of it as we think, all of this activity finally presenting itself consciously, as ones thoughts, maybe also memories and feelings etc.
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Weird. You think you're onto something, just to find it already discussed :) Seems as this guy combines similar concepts to mine. Although he doesn't use the word 'indeterminism' it's still the same principles. Comparison between Karl Pribram's "Holographic Brain Theory" and more conventional models of neuronal computation

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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #23 on: 16/06/2017 16:04:13 »
If yoz are super great multitasker,you can do. Or if you are two-brained and you losed your corpus callosum. But you do two things! You can speak and think about it and control your heartbeat!!!
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #24 on: 19/06/2017 12:45:22 »
I feel like I should try.
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #25 on: 19/06/2017 13:07:08 »
Sounds like a challenge
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #26 on: 19/06/2017 13:15:19 »
I feel like I should try. Often entrusted professionals to write my paperwork. Maybe let CRAPPY SPAM LINK write my first part and I’d write the second. No doubts the first would be way better.
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #27 on: 08/01/2019 08:33:52 »
Quote from: Tomassci on 16/06/2017 16:04:13
If yoz are super great multitasker,you can do. Or if you are two-brained and you losed your corpus callosum. But you do two things! You can speak and think about it and control your heartbeat!!!
We can control our heartbeat? How?
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Re: Could a person write two different exam answers, one with each hand?
« Reply #28 on: 08/01/2019 09:42:02 »
I had a colleague who was fluent in English and Spanish, and also an excellent touch typist (in the days of mechanical typewriters). I found her in the office one morning reading a paper in Spanish, typing a translation in English, and talking on the phone at the same time.

Plenty of people can play the piano or guitar and sing, and most people can talk and drive at the same time.
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