.....UNI-TASKING vs MULTI-TASKING.... THIS IS another evergreen CONTINUING OF PVAF's SHARING OF vED Knowledge = sciences of life and creation   FROM ITS vED SCHOLAR CONTRIBUTIONS since 1996.... scientific facts of Today's news story PROVEs the truth in vED knowledge  THAT   .......HUMAN MIND-brain-consciousness-body IS DESIGNED FOR only UNI-TASKING... meaning  TO DO ONLY ONE THING AT A TIME BUT AT THE SPEED EXCEEDING LIGHT SPEED to the INFINITE DEGREE..... (If YOU wish to discuss and/or expand on the reference to vEDik KNOWLEDGE referred above... the contributor of the entire write-up of today's news story Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry has kindly agreed to be contacted by YOU...please click here for this contact via email......) Stanford University SCIENTIFIC study in August 24, 2009 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showS.... ......THAT the most persistent multi-taskers are just lousy at everything they do..... THAT multi-taskers don’t focus as well as non-multitaskers. -   They’re more distractible..... THAT multi-taskers are weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information.... THAT multi-taskers are, as a matter of fact, worse at multitasking than people who don’t ordinarily multitask.... .......You know what this means.... This means that the people around you WHO MULTI-TASK SUCH AS :  the husband or father or friend who’s tapping the computer keys during an important phone conversation with you.... the SUV driver with the grande latte  coffee or the cellphone or watching DVD or reading GPS map.... the dinner companion with the roving eye for the waitress and other guests ... the person or family who eats and watches TV or reads.... .......ALL THESE AND OTHER MULTI-TASKERS are not only irritating, BUT they are incompetent AND LOUSY AT WHAT THEY DO.... Eyal Ophir, the study’s lead investigator and a researcher at Stanford’s Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, said:          “We kept looking for multitaskers’ advantages in this study....             But we kept finding only disadvantages. We thought multitaskers were very much in control of information. It turns out they were just getting it all confused....             It keeps me up late at night...I worry about both the short-term and long-term effects of multi-tasking" Please click on the next line to continue learning more very scary details of this scientific discovery about human mind-brain-body...in which is the mind-body is the prime controller of all that humans do and do not....plus also take in a short crash course on what, how and why of MIND-BRAIN-CONSCIOUSNESS/SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS plus empowering force of  SPIRIT-SOUL as per all human belief systems... and all that is connected with these in YOUR body's functioning to make YOU as you are and you are not....

Shattering the myth of .....multitasking....   ........Stanford University study finds.... those who do many things simultaneously do none of them well (From: Edmonton Journal: 30 Aug 2009 Bruth Pennebaker New York Times Printed and distributed by NewpaperDirect | www.newspaperdirect.com, US/Can: 1.877.980.4040, Intern: 800.6364.6364 | Copyright and protected by applicable law)   Read it and gloat. Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform poorly in a variety of tasks: -   They don’t focus as well as non-multitaskers. -   They’re more distractible. -   They’re weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information. -   They are, as a matter of fact, worse at multitasking than people who don’t ordinarily multitask. You know what this means. This means that: the people around you: -   the husband who’s tapping the computer keys during an important phone conversation with you, -    the SUV driver with the grande latte and the cellphone, -   the dinner companion with the roving eye and twitching thumbs — are not only irritating, -   they are (let’s not be faint-hearted) incompetent. But, wait. Should it be breaking news that a single person can’t juggle knives and explain quantum physics while polishing off an artichoke? Breaking news and a shock to the researchers themselves, as it turns out. Originally, the team of researchers, whose findings are published in the August  24, 2009 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were trying to find out what unusual cognitive gifts multitaskers possessed that made them so successful at multitasking. They’re still looking. “Multitaskers were just lousy at everything,” said Clifford I. Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford and one of the study’s investigators. “It was a complete and total shock to me.” Initially suspecting that multitaskers possessed some rare and enviable qualities that helped them process simultaneous channels of information, Nass had been “in awe of them,” he said, acknowledging that he himself is “dreadful” at multi-tasking. “I was sure they had some secret ability. But it turns out that high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.” The study tested 100 college students rated high or low multitaskers. Experimenters monitored the students’ focus, memory and distractibility with a series of electronic images of different-coloured shapes, letters and numbers, found only disadvantages. Eyal Ophir, the study’s lead investigator and a researcher at Stanford’s Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, said: “We kept looking for multitaskers’ advantages in this study. But we kept finding only disadvantages. We thought multitaskers were very much in control of information. It turns out they were just getting it all confused.” The study’s results were so strong and unexpected that the researchers are planning a series of follow-up experiments.  “It keeps me up late at night,” Nass said. “I worry about both the short-term and long-term effects of multi-tasking. We’re going to be testing the heck out of high and low multitaskers.” To the rest of the world, though, the people who trudge through life excited and unnerved by an occasional cellphone call while walking or watching the sun set (isn’t that multitasking?), the study’s findings aren’t quite so shocking. A constant state of stress; deluges of ever-changing information; the frenzied, nanosecond-fast hustle and bustle — this is bad for you? It’s surprising and it’s news that it’s bad for you? Before they lie down to take a well-deserved and uninterrupted nap, the trudgers of the world would like to say, “We told you so!” Still, their sad sense of inferiority to the flash and dash of multitaskers lingers and may even interfere with a good sleep. “The core of the problem,” Nass said, is that the multitaskers “think they’re great at what they do, and they’ve convinced everybody else they’re good at it, too.” Yes, they have. Take, for example, Robert Leleux, a New York writer and gentle soul who still struggles with a rotary phone. “My entire life, I’ve been so thoroughly cowed by multitaskers,” said Leleux, author of The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy. “I find it impossible to believe they’re not superior to me. This study is like catnip! It validates my entire life.” As a child, Leleux recalls, his uni-tasking took a culinary turn. When eating, he could concentrate only on one food at a time. Even with scientific validation at his fingertips, Leleux frets that the Stanford study may have been done “by a bitter uni-tasker like me who wants to validate his own existence.” .......AND NOW AFTER STUDYING SO MUCH BUT WITHOUT FACTORING IN MOST ESSENTIAL ........SPIRIT/SOUL ..... ......TO UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE ABOVE KNOWLEDGE IN GREATER DEPTH AND USE IT IN YOUR DAILY LIFE FOR A HAPPEIER TOMORROW WITH KNOWLEDGE ..... PLEASE DO A QUICK OVERVIEW STUDY OF UNIFIED FUNCTIONING OF .....MIND.... ......BRAIN.... ......CONSCIOUSNESS/SUBCONSCIOUONESS..... ......SPIRIT/SOUL......  (BY CLICKING ON EACH OF THE NAME HILITES BELOW) MIND Mind (pronounced /'ma?nd/) refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes. "Mind" is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason. Subjectively, mind manifests itself as a stream of consciousness.......  BRAIN  Despite rapid scientific progress, much about how brains work remains a mystery. A brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell. Brains can be extremely complex. The cerebral cortex of the human brain contains roughly 15-33 billion neurons depending on gender and age, linked with up to 10,000 synaptic connections each. Each cubic millimeter of cerebral cortex contains roughly one billion synapses These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body and target them to specific recipient cells. The most important biological function of the brain is to generate behaviors that promote the welfare of an animal. Brains control behavior either by activating muscles, or by causing secretion of chemicals such as hormones. Even single-celled organisms may be capable of extracting information from the environment and acting in response to it. Sponges, which lack a central nervous system, are capable of coordinated body contractions and even locomotion. In vertebrates, the spinal cord by itself contains neural circuitry capable of generating reflex responses as well as simple motor patterns such as swimming or walking. However, sophisticated control of behavior on the basis of complex sensory input requires the information-integrating capabilities of a centralized brain....... CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness is subjective experience or awareness or wakefulness or the executive control system of the mind. It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note. "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives"-   Schneider and Velmans, 2007 Consciousness in medicine (e.g. anaesthesiology) is simply regarded as wakefulness and is assessed by observing a patient's alertness and responsiveness. Consciousness in psychology and philosophy has four characteristics: subjectivity, change, continuity and selectivity. Intentionality or aboutness - that consciousness is about something - has also been suggested by philosopher Brentano. However, within the philosophy of mind there is no consensus on whether intentionality is a requirement for consciousness. Consciousness is the subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Issues of practical concern include how the presence of consciousness can be assessed in severely ill or comatose people; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how it can be measured; at what point in fetal development consciousness begins; and whether computers can achieve a conscious state...... Representation of consciousness from the 17th century Desires Through The Power Of Subconscious Mind " The Incredible Power Of The Subconscious Mind Whatever The Mind Can Conceive And Believe... It Can Achieve..... -Napolean Hill  (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve," is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books. SPIRIT The English word "spirit" has many differing meanings and connotations, but commonly refers to a supernatural being or essence — transcendent and therefore metaphysical in its nature: the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines it as "the non-physical part of a person". For many people, however, spirit, like soul, forms a natural part of a being: such people may identify spirit with mind, or with consciousness, or with the brain. SOUL In many religions, spiritual traditions, and philosophies, the soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a living being, often regarded as eternal. It is usually thought to consist of one's consciousness and personality, and can be synonymous with the spirit, mind or self.  In theology, the soul is often believed to live on after the person’s physical death, and some religions posit that God creates souls. In some cultures, non-human living things, and sometimes inanimate objects are said to have souls, a belief known as animism. The terms soul and spirit are often used interchangeably, although the former may be viewed as a more worldly and less transcendent aspect of a person than the latter. The words soul and psyche can also be treated synonymously, although psyche has relatively more physical connotations, whereas soul is connected more closely to metaphysics and religion. ......If YOU have come this far..... then you are really blessed.... and are urged to extend your life blessing to get inspired to have a quick crash course on all of the above.... by clicking on the name hilites and going to   Wikipedia, the free enclycopedia for a real quick KNOWLEDGE INTAKE for getting inspired for a greater life pursuits TO ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW THAN TODAY WITH A LITTLE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF   HOW YOU AND OTHERS FUNCTION EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR DAILY LIVING WITH YOUR UNIIFED FUNCTIONING MIND BRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS/SUB-CONSCIOUSNESS BODY SPIRIT/SOUL ........AND USE THAT UNIFIED UNDERSTANDING.....   FOR HARMONIOUS INTERDEPENDENT CO-EXISTENCE WITH REST OF THE CREATIONS WHOSE EXISTENCE YOU NEED AND DO NOT CONSCIOUSLY NEED...   BUT DEFINITELY SUBCONSCIOUSLY NEED .. .......MAY YOU BE BLESSED IN THIS KNOWLEDGE PURSUIT..... In ancient Vedic thought, the individual soul was symbolized by fire (Wikipedia)

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