Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA From: SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Parallel brain? Message-ID: <16419@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 13:17:08 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16419 Posted: Thu Feb 2 13:17:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 04:39:34 EST Lines: 12 From: Kenji SugiyamaI had a strange experience when I had practiced abacus in Japan. An abacus is used for adding, subtracting, multipling, and dividing numbers. The practice consisted of a set of calculations in a definite amount of time, say, 15 minutes. During that time, I began to think of something other than the problem at hand. Then I noticed that fact ("Aha, I thought of this and that!"), and grinned at myself in my mind. In spite of these detours, I continued my calculations without an interruption. This kind of experience repeated several times. It seems to me that my brain might be parallel, at least, in simple tasks.