"humans have only one language processor" -- this is what I remember from Patrick Henry Winstons lecture
Async-programming style single-core concurrency would still look like parallelism to an outside observer :)
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
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Re: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
#52The same is true for music, otherwise canons and polyphony wouldn't work.
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#53If you couldn't process multiple streams ( audio/visual/other senses ) how would you ever be able to monitor the background for danger and context switch? There is a difference between conscious experience and what's going on in the background.
There is also a different quality of processing. Textunderstanding and danger deciphering of signals.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps a dumb question but are they center panned (or mono, i.e. talking over each other) or is it split left ear/right ear when they come through the headset?
They are mono, but I was trying to say that with practice, you can process 2 independent audio streams simultaneously irrespective of whether they are mono or stereo. For example, I am able to keep track of 2 people talking at the same time. I obviously can't respond to both but can maintain independent contexts.
I do it too, but I "buffer" one person's speech while I process the other's, and vice versa. Do you process both at once?
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#56Then it is known that if you play to someone with small delay what he says he will be lost on both - so he can't think about and listen to what he is saying if it's not one stream.
Supported by the empirical evidence of cube farms, post COVID in the early “return to office” days, when office etiquette was completely forgotten and people were listening to all their meetings on speaker, but we were still having all our meetings at our desks.
I would constantly hear people around the cube farm stumbling through sentences because they could hear themselves through a neighbors computer with a slight delay.
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#57If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
Re: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
#58If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
Interlinked.
Re: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
#59If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
or any other reading for that matter!
Re: EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
#60If reading aloud a children story, you may notice you are able to maintain an independent unrelated train of thought. While doing so, I notice that occasionally extra mistakes can "leak" into the story telling - e.g. you read a single word incorrectly, maybe substituting a word from your other train of thought.
I definitely cannot do that. Crazy.