Delusion of Multitasking
Multitasking is indeed easy to be done, everybody can multitask but fewer are able to focus. Back then we might feel over-proud of it but now we must defeat our delusion of it.
Peaceful Saturday night, accompanied by a cup of green tea I was listening to an instrumental melody and was typing this article. Keep on typing word by word that comes up in my mind, listen to a calmly instrumental, read every word poured into this programmed paper and think all the upcoming words and sometimes the weariness of a little mouse that probably still hiding inside my room.
From the scenario above, I unconsciously did four tasks that were programmed by my brain. My brain has set the goal to finalise the writing, it also executes all tasks along with the goal which are typing, listening, reading, and thinking. Those are my brain’s main consciousness at this moment, with our bare eyes we might think we were multitasking, the fact is the brain handled it. This brain is lack the ability of multitasking, — Neurological science has demonstrated that the human brain is incapable of focusing on two things at once. — expressed as if it was impossible. Although another research state that our brain can process two tasks at the same time, it also stated that it has its limits, — When the brain tries to do two things at once, it divides and conquers, dedicating one-half of our grey matter to each task, new research shows. — instead, we were likely switching quickly from task to task and primarily programmed by our brain
We have down our pride that we were just humans with two hands, it is impossible to command both two to do two tasks at the same time. Also, it is indeed challenging for robots too to handle many things at once. So why not just change multitasking with fast task switching instead?
