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> The way the prefrontal lobe works is that it can only process one thing at a time, but it can switch between two tasks very rapidly.

Citation needed? If true, that would be a nice parallel to modern operating systems and processors.



"While the time spent in the role activation stage may be minimal, it quickly adds up when you continually switch back and forth. And once you switch from one task to another, _it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the original task._ "

https://blog.todoist.com/2014/05/13/how-multitasking-slows-y...


> parallel

Nice.




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