Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!crummer@AEROSPACE From: crummer%AEROSPACE@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: AIList Digest V2 #10 Message-ID: <16418@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 11:24:35 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16418 Posted: Thu Feb 2 11:24:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 04:37:00 EST Lines: 14 From: Charlie CrummerRe: Parallel Processing in the Brain There are several instances of people experiencing what can most easily be explained as "tasking" in the brain. (an essay by Henri Poincare in "The World of Mathematics", "The Seamless Web" by Stanley Burnshaw) It appears that the conscious mind is rather clumsy at creative work and in large measure assigns tasks (in parallel) to the subconscious mind which operates in the background. When the background task is finished, an interrupt is generated and the conscious mind becomes aware of the solution without knowing how the problem was solved. --Charlie