On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:03:44PM +0100, squeak-dev-request@lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:29:57 -0400 To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org From: Mark Guzdial guzdial@cc.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency Reply-To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
"Sciences of the Artificial" is more on design than psychology. "Protocol Analysis" with Ericsson is where I've heard more of the evidence that the mind is single-threaded (e.g., similar to the current work showing that driving and cell phone use reduces attention to each), but I'd bet that "Models of Bounded Rationality" has it, too.
I think it's clear that the mind as a whole works in a massively parallel fashion, but that only a few threads at a time at most can be "conscious," "accessible to consciousness," or whatever term you want to use for that mental thingy that handles 7+/-2 chunks at once, maximum.
Sources: vague memories of _The User Illusion_ by Tor Norretranders and _Wet Mind_ by Kosslyn & Koenig.
On Sunday 28 October 2001 06:10 am, you wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:03:44PM +0100,
squeak-dev-request@lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:29:57 -0400 To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org From: Mark Guzdial guzdial@cc.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency Reply-To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
"Sciences of the Artificial" is more on design than psychology. "Protocol Analysis" with Ericsson is where I've heard more of the evidence that the mind is single-threaded (e.g., similar to the current work showing that driving and cell phone use reduces attention to each), but I'd bet that "Models of Bounded Rationality" has it, too.
Or it could just be multiple threads running on a single processor, and being time sliced... ;)
We only have one brain.... <:)
Daniel
Daniel Joyce daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net is widely believed to have written:
We only have one brain.... <:)
Speak for yourself, Earthling.
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