To anyone who says humans can't multi-task

[Elendra]

Now text and walk.

Can I do it while skipping? Skipping is far more fun than walking.

[Squee]

If I notice I'm breathing, I can't breathe.



My brain can't handle it.

[Ozymandias]

Can I do it while skipping? Skipping is far more fun than walking.

[Foxes]

Lolling at how retarded this thread is

[Ozymandias]

Lolling at how retarded this thread is

Conquer it with your uruk-hai.

[Jorick]

Subconscious or passive actions don't count. It requires no active attention to breathe or blink or have your heart beat because your medulla oblongata does that without your attention. Sitting (or rather holding your body upright rather than flopping onto the floor) is similar in that it's not something you actually have to think about, it's a subconscious thing. Multi-tasking is doing two or more things that actually require your attention at the same time.

Also, it's not that multi-tasking is impossible, because that's obviously not true. People say humans can't multi-task because it's horribly inefficient and we aren't fantastic at splitting our attention. Rather than getting twice as much done, you actually cut your productivity down by trying to accomplish two different tasks at the same time. This is something that has been studied and proven over and over and over again. Anyone saying it's impossible for us to multi-task is just being hyperbolic.

[TripMyHop]

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Sitting and typing. I am making a conscious deliberate decision to do them both. QED multitasking.

Lol wow calm down.

And idk, sitting seems pretty passive to me. It's not so much the action of doing something, as it is /not/ moving.

[Elendra]

Lol wow calm down.

And idk, sitting seems pretty passive to me. It's not so much the action of doing something, as it is /not/ moving.

It's the action of not doing something, which is still an action, just a passive action instead of an active action.

[TripMyHop]

It's the action of not doing something, which is still an action, just a passive action instead of an active action.

Yeah but I'm pretty sure the implication in the whole multitasking dilemma refers to active actions which require conscious effort, and not a technicality of actions which involves farting and blinking. Just at a rough guess.

[Asuras]

It's still an action.

Then, by the same token, controlling peristalsis and hormones are an action.

I'm sitting, typing, breathing, thinking, moving waste through my bowels, building up urine in my bladder, releasing thyroid hormones, and warming my body through metabolism all at the same time.

Which is to say, no one cares what you're doing automatically when it comes to multi-tasking.