I enjoyed the article and think it points at some important things, but agree with Stephen that it might not point to a useful distinction.
Purely anecdotally: I don’t get absorbed into books easily (I very much enjoy reading, but don’t get the level of immersion you describe), feel emotional conflict as two distinct feelings or thoughts warring in my mind, can have IFS conversations, etc. but am absolutely hopeless at multi-tasking, dividing my attention, etc.
Meanwhile, my wife is the polar opposite. She gets immersed in books, feels one emotion at a time, empathizes compulsively, etc. but is great at multi-tasking.
Maybe the threaded model just doesn’t apply to multi-tasking, but that seems unusual to me. I would expect multi-tasking to be an obvious benefit of having a “multi-threaded” brain.
I enjoyed the article and think it points at some important things, but agree with Stephen that it might not point to a useful distinction.
Purely anecdotally: I don’t get absorbed into books easily (I very much enjoy reading, but don’t get the level of immersion you describe), feel emotional conflict as two distinct feelings or thoughts warring in my mind, can have IFS conversations, etc. but am absolutely hopeless at multi-tasking, dividing my attention, etc.
Meanwhile, my wife is the polar opposite. She gets immersed in books, feels one emotion at a time, empathizes compulsively, etc. but is great at multi-tasking.
Maybe the threaded model just doesn’t apply to multi-tasking, but that seems unusual to me. I would expect multi-tasking to be an obvious benefit of having a “multi-threaded” brain.