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From: SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Parallel brain?
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 13:17:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 13:17:08 1984
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From:  Kenji Sugiyama 

I 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.