Had an interesting day today - a combination of listening to a podcast of Digital Planet about using graphics cards for alternative types of calculations and thinking about how that translates into human brain processing and a subsequent meeting. OK - that wasn't how the day was likely to pan out, and the thought about brain power came from a later meeting with someone who has lots, and is employed to think...
The long and the short of it is that I reckon good creative thinkers have a 'graphics card' like capacity to do multiple calculations at the same time - hence the 'eureka' experience of coming to an understanding of a complex situation without understanding the thought process that generated it. That's the multiple calculations bit.
Most people do the CPU thing - processing sequentially and understanding how they come to their conclusions.
Some people do the parallel processing thing, not understanding how they get there, but doing it faster and making seemingly creative leaps. Not. Just multiple/parallel processing. Like a graphics processor.
Interesting...
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Youth of today don't work in a linear way. They can do multiple things at the one time. ie: Listening to an ipod in one ear, talking on a mobile phone which appears permanently attached to the other ear whilst checking our a friends (who they have never met) myspace account whilst replying to another friend using IM chat....waht an interesting world we live in !
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