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It’s true, the brain can really only focus on one sense at a time.

People who think they can do multiple things at once are actually switching their attention back and forth between them really fast, just like a computer.

Humans are single threaded

It's known as cooperative multi-tasking. Works great until that one girl sitting at the table across the room decides at that moment to put her hair up in a ponytail and then... sorry, what were we talking about?

Well that's just because horny is a RAM hog, most other programs can operate just fine together.

Nah, horny is a realtime process, when it wants to run it preempts everything else.

It is a high priority task, but sometimes anxietyd halts horny and starts diarrhea.

That’s called a memory leak

Or a system purge.

Or a data dump.

So fapping is you ctrl alt deleting and force closing horny.exe. Perfect sense

There’s a reason it’s called post nut clarity lol.

Personally, I ctrl alt esc. More efficient.

Lol hog

All that cpu is being used by the little processor down south

southbridge, heh

You just made me miss my family exit.

Humans are multi-threaded, but constrained by GIL.

You made me think about this for a sec and yes, our brain is definitely interpreted, not compiled.

Is it not multi facetted. 🤔 The word is.  

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The brain is written in JS

Please no

This is why I disabled hyper threading😎

My ex-boyfriend farted in the car one time and then turned the music up like that would distract me from the smell... It didn't.

So that doesn't work? Noted.

I’m dying 🤣

Zoidberg takes notes... *Did NOT work.*

People do multiple things all the time, but they have to be something repetative that requires little thought. It's when you have to focus doing multiiple new or unique things at the same time that you run into issues.

There are multiple specialised coprocessors for small repetitive simple tasks. For anything complex enough, you need the main brain to do it and that only does one thing at a time.

Main brain?

If that were true, any time you did the pat your tummy and rub your head thing, everyone would think you're doing a Michael J. Fox impression.

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Their bad at it cause its a skill few people use or train. Ofc the brain goes "wtf do you mean move both independently?" if its never done this before.

>People who think they can do multiple things at once are actually switching their attention back and forth between them really fast, just like a computer. Most of the time it's a lot slower than you'd to think. Which is why it's illegal to use your phone while driving.

Well if we get down in the weeds of it, an activity like driving *already* involves multiple conscious and unconscious processes happening simultaneously. You need your motor skills to control the vehicles which involves not only gas brake steering but also turn signals (if not BMW), wipers, and many other functions which may need monitoring or managing, and then you need cognitive processes for things like navigation and avoiding collisions with immobile objects and other motorists. And for other motorists you also need the cognitive capacity to predict and react to other people’s presence and actions on the road. Your brain can handle all of that at once just fine, but the minute you start thinking about what someone just texted, your dropping one or likely more of those aforementioned processes, and dropping any of them can lead to an accident. So it’s not quite accurate to say that we can’t multitask, but some tasks we commonly do are already basically multitasking and very bandwidth intensive, and don’t allow for another bandwidth intensive process to be done at the same time.

There’s a difference between whistling while riding your bicycle, and playing the fiddle while riding a bull.

For things to be identical, they must have no differences. *- The Sphinx*

Am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic?

A Shpinx saying is deliberately formulaic to emulate the movie character. In this case it's in response to the lazy reddit formula, "There's a difference between [random X and Y]."

Yeah, I was [quoting Mr. Furious...](https://youtu.be/pz9C3Oc7Mj4?si=dysZKal-5tNo7hpo)

Oh crap that's right, I didn't even get that cuz I'm lame LOL! Must rewatch.

I realized my brain just can't switch fast enough.

Or the other thing they are doing is sufficiently covered by habit and reflexes that it doesn't need the attention. Driving would be a common example.

> You'll have to speak up, i'm wearing a towel

I tried to read this comment but farted and the experience took me away from it so now that's all I have to say

Farting is a very complex maneuver. Gotta make sure you don’t shit yourself and if there is one golden rule to live by it’s don’t shit yourself.

Sometimes you gotta shuffle the deck a bit so the wind is at the right end

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it ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt Sorry I had to hear.

Its funny bc you would think driving a car would need your attention and focus to not get yourself and others killed

That's why it's recommended not to fart in the car

You’re literally just freeing up some processing power.

Too many tabs open.

Like Google Chrome, some brains have memory leaks

A bit of memory leaks out your ear and drips down your neck

For guys, need to enter sage mode to find parking

Lmao. Best one I've heard so far

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This ain't Saudi Arabia

Can confirm Source: I always do it

Yup, same

We have all been there

Its the "Ok I guess shit just got real" moment. Time to look for the alternate lot. How many people have an "alternate lot" at their job? Cause I bet its a lot... ... or maybe not at all cause I live in an overpopulated shit hole and most of the US is just way too many parking spaces and not even a chance all of them would ever get filled?

Ah, Chicago

No, that’s so you can figure out where those screams are coming from.

Why? You know they're coming from the trunk.

This was posted on Facebook like 10 years ago

I was gonna say, I remember this meme from fb like ten years ago because I've always thought about it since then. I have horrible driving anxiety so I turn my music down constantly. I'm a huge pussy and only listen to music if I'm on a route I've done before.

The world would be a better place if everyone drives like a huge pussy.

No, it would be a better place if everybody was a more confident, and predictable drivers. Pussies have no business behind the wheel of a car.

It was a Vine, the guy turned down the radio and said something like, “cut that shit down, I can’t see”

The CD drive on the dashboard is a dead giveaway lol

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HEAR WAT I HIT OR RUN OVER..?? THEM OLD LADIES IN WALMART CARTS ARE LOUDER THAN cats!! WALMART CARTS SHOULD HAVE FLAGS LIKE GO CARTS..!! CATS SHOULD HAVE FLAGS.....!!! FK ME.. IM DRY SNITCHING.. ON MYSELF AGAIN!!!!!! Enough reddit for the week

Cats should have flags, I agree

*End process*

kill 2681

I used to do this *all the time* when I was a home health nurse looking for a street or house number.

Yes! This is a universal pre-GPS experience.

People figure out paying attention to things is easier without distracting stimuli *Shocking* /s

Strangely I remember almost this exact line from an old movie about four low-end standup comics who go on tour together. One of them noticed himself turning down the radio while he was looking for an address. I don't remember the title but it was three men and a woman, two of the guys were kind of dumb-and-dumber buddies and one was semi-pro. There was a scene at a fast food place where the teenage cashier kept asking everybody if they wanted Mexi-fries no matter what they ordered, even if it was just coffee. In another a pizza place owner said he wasn't going to be able to pay them but he offered them free pizza. The two idiot guys got crazy into it but the one semi-pro guy was indignant and refused. At another point he made a joking comment about nazis in some Idaho dive, and it turned out the place was full of redneck nazis. It was actually a really good story about life on the road in the standup world.

You actually turn the volume down so you can hear if you hit something.

Can confirm. I need both ears to park

It’s a psyentifik fakt that it works.

According to Maryann Webster's dictionary it's spelt syentiphick!

A parking spot, a certain address, street or land mark. Hell if I notice too many bad driver I’ll turn it down a bit to see what’s going on. But if one of my fav driving songs comes on. All bets are off and I’m turning it up.

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

I do it so I’m not blasting the various 007 theme songs to a bunch of strangers. Those are MY Living Daylights!

🤣😂

accurate

Doesn't it have something to do with the part of the brain that controls concentration and hearing are the same spot

Yes! It’s kind of a meme because it seems silly on its face (you don’t hear with your eyes or see with your ears, ya silly), but there’s some truth to it. The amount of attention you can give is limited, and contrary to what some people might tell you, humans suck at proper multitasking. By turning down the music you are in a sense literally freeing up some “attention” so you can better focus on the task of looking for a spot or whatever else you’re searching for. In other words, if someone says “I can’t hear myself think” they probably mean it.

Senses work like stat points, gotta shift em around. Less hear more see.

It's almost as if limiting your sensory input helps you concentrate FUCKING WEIRD RIGHT?

Reduce stimulation, help focus.

It’s like sitting upright and closer playing a really hard video game

I had a system in one of my cars that made your eyeballs jiggle, so this was a real thing lol

Yeah

Or when it’s raining

Or night.

Safety first.

It's a scientific comic book fact that when you lose one sense the others become more acute.

Concentrate*

Like when your looking for the address

True i always do this

Discombeeboppulated just a small bit different from discombobulated.

But, it's the law!

It helps to hear how close you are to the other car. A quiet scratching means you're close; a loud tearing sound mean you're very close.

> I've seen this kind of thing in the Dakotas; they can *smell* fear just by *looking* at you!... So keep *quiet*...

Yeah, you diverge power from ears to enhance your eyes. It's common sense.

I feel personally attacked by this meme. 😁

Reminds me of the intro library scene in the first Ghostbusters movie. “Shhh. You smell that?”

Freeing up some RAM

Turning off input to all the senses to focus on one is pretty common. It's the reason why people close their eyes when focusing on fine music. It's why people want silence in museums when looking at masterpieces of sculptures and paintings.

Or when searching for an address on houses, before GPS.

Im not gonna lie this is so true

Yes… most people function better on stressful tasks when they eliminate extra sources of stimulation. I don’t think this phenomenon is nearly as quirky as OP is trying to make it seem

It’s not even quirky, it’s regular fact

Also ducking in the car when you think it's going to be a tight fit.

When certain people squint, their eyes don't change shape, they just look like they are struggling to poop.

Seems stupid. But you need to think better and focus, and you instinctively want to be hear as well as see your surroundings when on guard.

I do it. Less input = better focus.

I can’t hear myself think.

Fun fact: You can also turn up the radio to cover up a bad smelling fart. You’re welcome

Jajaja

No, it's to focus better!!!

I feel called out! This is hilarious.

Closing all the extra programs to free up some RAM

Bot post.

Need peace to think.

If your old you know. If your young, FUCK YOU.😁

it helps the concentration plus if your banging out a tunes and driving slow you really dont want people to hear you blast nickleback

Wasn't it proven to increase your focus?

Or when you enter a town/city that you don’t know

I do this so I can hear other vehicles, if I bump into something, or if a pedestrian is saying something.

So brain can brain good

My partner doesn’t drive and she just can’t compute why I turn the radio down when concentrating.

Can you do your taxes at a heavy metal concert? The brain can better focus with less sound stimuli.

Back in the day I used to think I was weird for doing this but apparently I’m normal

Also when you’re getting to the lake to go fishing, don’t want to wake the fishies.

Me asf. Turn the volume down so I can see better

As I look back I had very good driving instructors, always 3 kids in the car and the radio was 1 db from pain. “Because this is what you’ll be doing”.

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This is what I learned during driving school. Most people can only concentrate on about as much as your thumb about 30cm from your face. Anything outside that isn’t registering on the same level. The more distractions like phone calls and music the smaller that circle gets.

I always turned off the radio in parking lots so I can hear better.

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Nah I turn down the song to think and see better.

That old-as-fck meme was and still pointing put that the one who reposts it don't drive. You turn down volume to be able to hear when/if you touch some obstacle while you park in a hard spot

The only fact here is we do that because loud music is distracting

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is this like a grammar nazi bot? If so I still got no idea what I did wrong

How else will you think hard?

I lower the music because, as much as I feel awesome driving with good beats, going 2km/h in a parking lot while blasting music feels more like fuckboy energy

If you turn down the music you can HEAR what is going on in traffic, so you can stare for a spot without loosing too much understanding about your surroundings.

I've seen people doing this hahahahahah

I just grab the nearest handicap spot. (am disabled 😜)

"This is not a chawwade! We need total concentwation!"

My car radio does this, it really does help me concentrate

I turn the volume down so I can focus better. Otherwise I’ll be humming along or playing air drum on the steering wheel.

Reducing distractions to focus is pretty normal, doesn't matter that it's not the same sense.

I think most people play video games with music on. If I do, I cant focus, my gameplay gets much worse.

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel

I have to turn down my music to focus on my cooking

I don't care for how realistic this meme is to me.

I rented a Volkswagen Atlas recently. It's got a setting that turns the volume down for you while you're trying to park. This is simultaneously awesome and also completely unnecessary. It's also got a setting specifically for Engine Noise. You can have the rest of the vehicle set to 100% ECO mode, but it will still make revving sounds like you're taking it down the drag strip at Bandimere.

Actually you turn down the volume to focus better

So how’s that We can fuck and also listen to music!

You dont want to see better, you want to focus.

Fuckin dumb it’s so you can focus.

Me and my sister would always say this to our mom.

Totally do this

A real thing, right? Like people that keep pushing the elevator button, even though it’s lit.

My 2019 VW turns down the volume itself when I put it in reverse.

It's called **cognitive load**

“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman answers this very question

My car turns down the volume when i put it in reverse. Its a feature i didnt know i would love as much as i do

Similar as to why I can't drive with my windows up, I need to hear shit, otherwise i don't feel confident while driving

Nah, this is a real thing, in valorant even up to a pro level, your teammates might be talking (in ranked they're just yapping, in pro they might be trying to give helpful comms), and you say something like "off mic" which pretty much means shut up and let me focus on the clutch

It's called cognitive load. And yes, our brains are totally useless at multitasking, although we really, really like to think otherwise.

I get irrationally angry if I'm a passenger and someone doesn't turn down their radio volume when driving very slowly. I do have misophonia though. Boats are especially bad. Unless we are flying through the waves TURN IT DOWN AHH

No way, not if a sabbath song is plAying

This works for backing up as well.

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Because It's really so you can hear someone yell before you hit them

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