Re: Mind: Mulitasking
>"can our mind multitask several tasks?"
For an interesting discussion of a big time scientist investigating this, take
a look in Richard Feynman's "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman" (hey the whole
damn book is worth reading - Feynman is very humourous and the section on how
he got the truth out of NASA on the shuttle disaster investigation is important
to people concerned about integrity in management).
RF describes getting interested in this and experimenting on himself by finding
out what else he can do while counting seconds and how accurately he can
maintain the timing. In brief he found he could get pretty accurate on
timekeeping, and maintain it while doing other tasks, providing (and this is
the interesting NLP bit) the rep systems didn't conflict. That is, if doing the
time keeping in internal auditory, he could do visual or physical tasks but
couldn't maintain a conversation and timekeeping at same time. Can't remember
whether he could read or not concurrently. So, being Feynman, he then tried
switching to watching the seconds go past on his internal screen - now he can
do the auditory task but not the visual. He wrtes it much better and I've m
issed out on the scrapes he gets into while concentrating on two things at
once.
So there you go.
Duncan