Re: Conclusive Evidence: IT People arent Human

["Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>]

On 4/20/06, Justin Polazzo <jpolazzo () thesportsauthority com> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9019&feedId=online-news_rss2
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>
> Everybody has experienced a sense of "losing oneself" in an activity -
> being totally absorbed in a task, a movie or sex. Now researchers have
> caught the brain in the act.
>
> Self-awareness, regarded as a key element of being human, is switched
> off when the brain needs to concentrate hard on a tricky task, found the
> neurobiologists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot,
> Israel.
>
> The team conducted a series of experiments to pinpoint the brain
> activity associated with introspection and that linked to sensory
> function. They found that the brain assumes a robotic functionality when
> it has to concentrate all its efforts on a difficult, timed task - only
> becoming "human" again when it has the luxury of time.

Looks to me like there is a Global SpinLock here. Probably should be
optimized better in the next generation of code. A better threaded
model would have less people duck-waddling to the bathroom after they
have drunk 40oz of mountain dew and spent 8 hours sitting on a
problem.


--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

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