Science fiction writer Peter Watts ("Starfish," "Blindsight") returns to the intriguing possibility of intelligence without cumbersome, neurologically extravagant awareness:
Do-It-Yourself Zombiehood
But what especially interested me was the suggestion of mechanism behind some of those results. Both Blindsight and Blog cite studies showing that being distracted from a problem actually improves your decision-making skills, or that we are paradoxically better at detecting subtle stimuli in "noisy" environments than in "clean" ones.
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Correction on website address:
http://rifters.com/real/2007/09/do-it-yourself-zombiehood.html
Corrected.
(Man, the *one time* I don't test a link...)
On patrol, sir! Ever hyper vigilant! Where's my coffee?!? 8^}
Yesssir!
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