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Is it possible for someone to think about more than one thing at exactly the same time? I don't know what it was, but sometimes I have moments when I have a song in the back of my head, and I'm thinking about something entirely different. And I never get my thoughts crossed, while maintaining the song in the back of my mind, and the thought in front.
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October 16, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 16, 2005 (changed October 16, 2005) Permalink

Here is another sort of case. I'm driving in heavy traffic, so I must be thinking about the movement of cars around me, but at the same time I am thinking hard about a philosophical argument. And I'm a safe driver!

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