taking a small ride on the thought train.

Just for the record, the last post wasn't nonsense, it was polish.

Does your mind change trains of thought very rapidly? Do you often find yourself chasing your thoughts due to their fleeting nature? I do. I convince myself that this is normal and embrace my scattered brain. The human mind isn't innately wired for multitasking. Try typing out this sentence while saying all of the provinces in Canada including their capital cities. You probably won't be very successful because they are two separate cognitive processes. If you can manage, then it will likely take you more time to do the consolidated task than each task on its own. We created computers out of our inability to coordinate several tasks at once in our mind. Computers are our prehensile task managers.

The interesting question that arose was what the difference between coordination and multitasking was. One involves a singular event and the other is more focused on a few singular events occurring at once. For example, ballet takes coordination, not necessarily multitasking. Partaking in ballet and solving equations at the same time would require multitasking. The two seem very similar in definition, but in the brain they have two totally different functions and operate on separate pathways. Multitasking and coordination coalesce when certain activities are repeated continually into muscle and memory neurons until they become perceived by the mind as one unified event. In reality these are just a culmination of tasks. The process which makes this possible is called neuroplasticity. The brain is an incredible computational device. Ballet and equations could become an olympic sport someday!

Is decision making a cascaded version of multi tasking and coordination? Perhaps emotion barks up the tree or the 'stem of the brain' and keeps the more executive processes (reason, logic) in slavery. It's all very interconnected. The primitive emotions usually dominate and are difficult to curb. Old habits die hard.

Focus dave, focus and not ford focus!