Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!aiva.edinburgh.ac.UK!ken From: ken@aiva.edinburgh.ac.UK (Ken Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: Can we human being think two different things in parallel? Message-ID: <19880824193858.5.NICK@HOWARD-JOHNSONS.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 24 Aug 88 19:38:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu From: Ken Johnson Date: Tue, 23 Aug 88 06:42 EDT Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: Can we human being think two different things in parallel? References: <19880820041414.6.NICK@HOWARD-JOHNSONS.LCS.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: "Ken Johnson,E32 SB x212E" Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Apparently-To: ailist@stripe.sri.com In a previous article, Youngwhan Lee writes: >Date: Sun, 14 Aug 88 16:54 EDT >From: Youngwhan Lee >To: ailist-request@stripe.sri.com >Subject: Can we human being think two different things in parallel? > >Can we human being think two different things in parallel? I think most people have had the experience of suddenly gaining insight into the solution of a problem they last deliberately chewed over a few hours or days previously. I'd say this was evidence for the brain's ability to work at two or more (?) high-order tasks at the same time. But I look forward to reading what Real Psychologists say. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ken Johnson (Half Man Half Bicycle) Address: AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH Phone: 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email: k.johnson@ed.ac.uk