Saturday, July 22, 2006
bg
does the human brain have a concept of a process .. in particular the notion of a background processing job..how else can you explain the fact that you spend lots of time thinking about a crossword clue and fail to solve it but you get the answer while seemingly doing something totally unrelated?
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I'm sure your question was rhetorical, and you weren't really suggesting that any comparison between the human brain and a computer would be a fair one.
There's a definite limit to the number of background processes a computer system can run, but I wonder if there's a corresponding limit in the human (or animal) brain. And if there is, what factors control that number? Size, number of neurons..?
@nice try: Isn't it ob? What is breathing for example?
@raindrop .. but I wonder if there's a corresponding limit in the human (or animal) brain.
The number I've heard being bandied about is 7 (for voluntary processes, ie not including breathing etc) .
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