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		karmakaze on Sept 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded Also we do have multiprocessing abilities, just not multiple 'foreground' conscious ones.

AstralStorm on Sept 14, 2019 [–]

We sort of do, but at best it's not more efficient, at worst it's much slower.

karmakaze on Sept 14, 2019 | [–]

I've never experienced being aware of two unrelated things at the same time so I definitely have a single-core consciousness.

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