like what you're thinking about now
could it be possible to have more??

>>105624267 (OP)
Mine has two, a background one and an active one. The background one isn't very coherent.
I'm pretty dumb though.

>>105624285
what has been bothering me is is it even possible to have a coherent thought process without one master thread?
maybe intelligence is limited like this, you just can't parallelize it

thoughts propagate from the subconscious to the conscious, and then back to the subconscious, in a continuous stream

source: did acid

>>105624323
yes but there's always one main thread that you pay attention to, which is your thought process right?
so it's like many small background ones signaling to the main one, but they always have to coalesce together somehow before they can make sense

>>105624267 (OP)
What if it has several competing threads?

>>105624351
i don't feel it is that way. might be. but maybe my brain tricks me into thinking i just have one main thread making all decisions

>>105624347
yes kinda like a neural network where many units add up to a single one
in fact this was probably the first insight i had on my very first acid trip, that the brain is literally a neural network in the very stereotypical sense of it

>>105624364
i guess you're thinking of something like picrel?
it makes sense, but i don't think there's anything limiting a different layout
but if you think about it. if you had multiple ones controlling your muscles at once for example, grab that thing, throw that rock, it would become a mess
so we evolved this kind of way to have only one main thread making the ultimate decisions

>>105624398
actually i'm pretty sure "decisions" are already made before they reach the conscious mind. As you may already know, the ego does not control choices or decisions but simply "attaches" to them.
the point where many images become one, is simply the point where the process is observed (the image perceives itself; awareness is really just aware of itself)

>conscious and unconscious
the voice in your head reading this
and
your eyeballs automagically scanning it

>>105624469
both of those happen "automagically" although I dont read it in any voice.
if I were to try and read it in a voice, i guess you could call it ego because then "I" would have to "attach" to it in order to "force" the voice

when i move my hand, there is a clear ego pattern related to the body and its movements because it doesn't feel like my hand is moving automatically (but i also know that it in fact is, despite appearances)

>>105624267 (OP)
I think it's like a node server as an API which has only one thread but can give out tasks to other processes (which can work on other threads) using async/await

>>105624449
interesting. because making decisions feels so visceral to me, like i'm the one in control, i can do anything right now, but maybe you're right and they just emerge from a lower process and surface in a way that tricks you into thinking you actually have control

>>105624361
Maybe it's only really felt in moments of tension, like in addictive behaviors or when making difficult decisions.

>>105624351
>>105624766
People with ADHD or chronic anxiety definitely have multiple competing threads all the time

>>105624469
>voice
What voice?

>>105624267 (OP)
each sentient being receives 2 threads but share the same CPU
1 thread is for motor function
1 thread if for delivering sensorial inputs to awareness
the awareness thread can be pointed inward when processing memories, for example, or doing complex math. notice how sound and vision get stuck in a buffer when you are deeply concentrated inside

>>105624267 (OP)
it's inherently multithreaded since it is taking care of numerous biological functions needed to stay alive. the internal monologue thread is dedicated to you though.

The human brain can focus on one mental task at a time, but the body can focus on another task. For example doing repetitive manual labor while singing or washing the dishes while thinking.

So I guess it's a dual-core.

>>105624928
ADD/ADHD doesn't make you hyperactive or anything, it just means you lack the same reward structures that help normal people stay focused on the things they need to do.

>>105625937
true, maybe it's even a spectrum, idk how drummers work but i imagine they have a separate "thread" for each of their appendages when playing

It seems that we can agree that the brain has 2 "cores". But are these actually 2 separate cores, or 1 core with two logical processors/threads?

>>105624267 (OP)
>does human brain have one main thread?
yes
the picrel visualises it

>>105626303
D:

>>105624267 (OP)
You brain is alot like the ibm cell processor, you have 1 main processor, scheduling things and making executive decisions doing any general purpose execution, and many dumb processing elements that cannot do anything without instruction. but can continue executing while the main thread is doing something else.

>>105624928
ADHD is like having a really dog shit scheduler.

>>105624267 (OP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05181

>there are unironically people in this thread who only have one or two though threads
grim

The brain doesn't have concepts like "threads" or anything even remotely analogous to threads, and this sort of thinking is why AI will never be truly intelligent. You are trying to fit the human brain into a manmade model instead of trying to figure out how the brain itself actually works. Neural nets were an attempt, but it's still too focused on how existing technology works rather than how the brain works.

>>105624305
>coherent thought process without one master thread?
That's just a random shell getting in the way.

Lookup split brain syndrome
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