Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, July 12, 2012, 13:56 (4300 days ago) @ David Turell

The question of free will IS purely irrelevant. Because it is a fact that we cannot will more than one thing at a time.[/i]
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> > > I hate to keep butting in, but I multitask all the time, choose to do three things at once. I don't understand your context. Show me how it is a fact please, or am I interpreting you at the wrong level?
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> > http://brainrules.blogspot.com/2008/03/brain-cannot-multitask_16.html
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> > Your multitasking is a personal fiction.
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> I"m glad you have swallowed this guy whole hog. I don't know that I believe him. He offered statements but no proof. If he is basing his conclusions on fMRI studies, I have presented two neurophysiologists here recently who both point out the fallacies in the published conclusions. I still can't equate blood flow to a region of the brain and we are supposed to know what the person is thinking.-That guy's blog didn't start my thinking this way. Actually, my meditation did, coupled with my computer science knowledge surrounding multitasking. It's a mathematical fact: tasks get done faster when done individually as opposed to frequent "context switching." (Technical term for switching tasks.)-There's actually a plethora of data from the apa even, that demonstrates that "multitasking effectiveness" doesn't play out in the real world. Prime example: Study after study has demonstrated that talking on the cell phone while driving delivers the same impairment as being legally drunk. -I'll also note that few drunk drivers--if at all--*feel* impaired. Yet we all know it happens every time. I'll challenge that your multitasking is little different. -I'm not talking about tasks that are outsourced to muscle memory either: surgical cutting has more to do with exercise than it does with conscious control. In fact, I'll bet conscious control makes you a little worse. -If you watch your thoughts carefully, I have extreme doubts that you are actually *thinking* three things at once. Everyone else's experience seems to be "There might be 3 things going on, but I'm only 'hearing' one."

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