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When I have a problem that my conscious mind can't solve, I set it aside and do something unrelated. I often get the answer popping up while working on the second task.
Note quite the same as your named alter ego, but still evidence of multi-tasking.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sure, most of us can multitask. It's just the way I do it is weird, or rather was.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Ditto. Sometimes, I use it like counting sheep, when going to sleep. Doing linked lists goes to ZZZZZ.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yes. This, too, is my number 1 go-to for burned-out, stymied, stumped situations.
Distraction, seems to release the knot. Not always, but most of the time.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Terry Pratchett - "Maskerade", she had it too.
The only voice in my head is my wife telling me I did it wrong.
Granny Wetherwax
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I now feel disadvantaged, I have only a single stream in my head and am thankful for that- two of me on the inside would just be terrifying.
Damn, having someone/thing to help out with the tricky issues would have made life a lot simpler.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Sure thing.
It's called the default mode network. I've personified mine as a piano player, but he frowns when I try to name him and I respect that. Nice guy, helps me out a lot.
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It's called your subconscious. We all have it; nothing remarkable about it at all.
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I'm aware of that. That's not what I'm asking.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have felt something like that.
For example, in school sometimes when a particularly nasty calculus problem bent my mind, the solution would come to me in a dream.
Once while playing "Burnout Paradise" I could not complete a race and an alternate route came to me in a dream. Next day the I found the route not only existed but saved me more than 10 seconds and helped me finish the race.
It still happens with problems programming problems that trouble me.
I have discussed with some friends, and they have felt something similar but not exactly in the same manner.
Maybe the solution "presents itself" while they're on the toilet or cooking, but dreaming it was novel to them. Still, I haven't felt that the one who solved the problem is not me.
Hence never felt the need to name it.
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I'm a runner. Before I started working remotely, I ran at lunchtime three days a week. After coming back from a run, many times I found a solution to the problem I'd been working on beforehand. This was in spite of the fact I didn't consciously think about the problem during the run. Brain chemistry is a funny thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have at times considered that ones BRAIN is another being
and that your body is governed by that being
Not a great example thought is managed by input to the brain
When the body experiences pain it manages a reflex by talking to the BRAIN
I sometimes wonder who made the statement "The Brain has a mind of its own"
excuse me I am looking at a sweet roll my brain tells me it is time to eat!
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I think "Scout" is your right-brain - not constrained by logic nor syntax it is what raised us as a species above many others . . it is the very essence (and purest form) of intelligence.
Think of it as the part of your brain computer running only in it's native environment - unlike your left-brain which is running (probably vertical multi-level) interpreters but having the advantage of being accessible to your conscious thought processes . .
My "Scout" manifests most in the short period between sleep and me being fully awake - I think of it as that time where the barrier between the two hemispheres' connection is at it's thinnest . .
Just what I think . . YMMV . .
A few are great.
I am small.
Together we are the Universe.
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Fleece bygone indictment (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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C'mon then we give up
Edit
I think we both posted simultaneously
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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See above!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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See above edit
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Looks like we did!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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NASA had to close the only restaurant on the moon.
No atmosphere.
I know its an old joke. But funny.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Fortunately the space bar is still getting hit a lot
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I still Enter it on my way Home, as does my mate Del (He's a Star!)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You really had to Insert all of these puns, didn't you? I don't know if I need a Pause or if I need to Escape before I lose Control. I need to Function for the rest of the day, I can't send an Alt to do my job.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Perhaps we should Shift topics.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah I think it's time to End this.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You had to pay using star bucks.
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