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Subject: Re: Multitasking: adaptacious or not so much?
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:37:12 -0700 (PDT), prawnster
<zweibro...@ymail.com> wrote:

>On Apr 25, 4:08 am, *Hemidactylus* <ecpho...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> And that's taking an adaptationist slant on the issue. Could be that
>> supertaskers have merely cultivated a skillset that is subject to
>> phenotypic plasticity (ie- learned).
>>
>
>I'm still waiting for you or anyone else to explain to me how the
>ability to multitask is anything but adaptacious.... Still waiting.


Did you miss my previous post to you?


>Or please just admit that multitasking is a pure benefit, without
>exception, and riddle me this: why can only 2.5% of people multitask
>effectively?  This is your burden to prove.  According to Darwinistas,
>since people have been 'volving for grillions of years and
>multitasking is so adaptacious, we should all be smackscoop
>multitaskers.  And yet, we're not.  Sadly, we're typically capable of
>doing just one thing at a time with any facility.
>
>I'm also wondering why I don't have wings, considering my grandma was
>a fruitfly, according to some man with a PhD, huzzah huzzah.
>
>I'm also wondering why I don't have eyes in the back of my head.  Can
>you think of a single downside to 360-degree vision?  Again, I can't.