Fun family experiment. Try it!!!!!
I tried this a few months ago.
I couldn’t draw a 6, but I sent the paper in and was admitted to art school.
Pot in, watch in tv, playing online poker,tracking wife’s GPS and planning lunch ...
It can.
The playing of musical instruments demonstrates how the body can do multiple different tasks at the same time.
Piano for instance. Bass keys, treble keys, foot pedals and then singing on top of all that.
“You can do it with practice”
So in fact the human body can “multitask”.
Having read the article, I taught myself to write with my left hand, because I had a couple of friends who wrote lefthanded, and it was fascinating to watch how they did that.
Can't do it any more, because I lost most of the use of my left hand in an accident in 2011, but I did pretty good at it once upon a time.
Many people have favorite anecdotes or antics that they trot out at parties or in social settings - especially bars. They typically involve feats of strength, dexterity, or mastery or the arcane or trivial.
One of my favorites involved twiddling my thumbs. I would say, “Most people know how to twiddle their thumbs forwardly” (demonstrate with a quick clockwise twiddle), “or backwardly” (demonstrate with a quick counter-clockwise twiddle), “but can you twiddle in opposite directions simultaneously?!”, and I would demonstrate by alternating my left and right thumbs in either direction.
It was no great feat - just a rote memory thing that I taught myself - but it seldom failed to intrigue those who saw it. Filed under “stuff that humans do to amuse each other” LoL
, the massive nerve bundle which connects the two brain hemispheres, and lets each know what the other is doing. There is some human research on people who have had that severed for other reasons, as controlling epileptic seizure.
I'm not sure of how independent the separated halves are on self-initiated muscular activity.
But, there have been split vision experiments which demonstrate that the two halves can register different information. In one I remember, they would flash images to the two different eyes and ask the patient what they saw. In one experiment, after circles, squares, colors, variable differential exposure time, etc., the flashed a nude picture to the eye which was in the hemisphere opposite the speech centers. THe subject, a woman, burst out laughing. When asked what she was laughing about, she couldn't exactly say. As I remember, she said, "Oh, I don't know, such a funny picture." Remember, the part of the brain associated with speech hadn't seen the picture.
If it weren’t for multitasking, I would never get everything I have to do daily accomplished. If I’m on FR, it’s a guarantee that I’m doing 4-5 other things as well.
[[The foot follows the hand. Why does that happen?]]
Peer pressure
I can pat my head while moving my other hand in a circle on my tummy, first try!
The foot/hand thing, not so much.
What about piano playing? That is the left and right hands operating independently.
Same for percussion.
In fact, most music is pure multiprocessing.
But trillions of neurons are all firing away, muscles are moving my lungs, lungs are transporting oxygen to blood, heart is pumping that blood to remotes parts of my body, chemicals are being transported across artery walls, endocrine glands are working, digestion system is breaking down food, releasing saliva, moving wasted downward, renal system is filtering waste from the blood, skin is preventing diseases from entering, vision is telling me what’s in front of me, aural system is constantly listening, olfactory system tells me the cat box needs cleaning, hair and nails are growing nonstop, and a gazillion other systems at work.
Yeah, the human body cannot multi-task. Right.
Stupid supposition....the body multi tasks all the time. My heart beats while I breath. My eyes see while I listen
There is film of Ginger Baker keeping 3/4 time with his left hand, 4/4 with his right, 7/8 with his left foot and 12/8 with his right.
And it actually sounds good. Especially when he brings it all back to 4/4 for the crescendo.
If that’s not multi-tasking, I need to be further educated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJefbp-s9LA
Regard,
The body waits to breathe in between heartbeats and the heart won’t beat between breaths?
Easily done. But I multitask all the time. :)
Not sure what the heck they are talking about. We run the autonomic systems for our heart, breathing, metabolisms, etc. Subconsciously we are running through a number of different things going on in our lives, consciously we are usually focused on something we’re doing at the moment, but even then we often are distracted, day-dreaming or trying to do more than one thing at a time (cooking and talking to the kids, sweeping and listening to music, typing on FR while thinking about next weeks work travel, etc).
Our body multi-tasks all the time.