Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:28:19 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>, bright@rush.net, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by Message-ID: <37488103.B522929B@uswest.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905231248540.32075-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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>> Coding is inherently mathematical, as is music. Using the same >> part of your brain for two activities results in half (or less) >> of the effort applied to the activity than if you were using it >> for one. > > From what I've read (not a lot, but enough) listening to music actaully > serves to *stimulate* those segments of the brain. Why would you think > that listening to music would "use up" your brain power? And why do you > think that the brain is some kind of single-tasking system? I think the > brain is not nearly as linear and mechanical as you seem to think. I'm reminded of someone's trouble with NIC performance. The problem was the speed at which the IRQs fired. The faster the IRQs came, the faster his NIC performed. When he shared the NIC's IRQ with something that was generating a lot of IRQs (an active disk controller, eg) the NIC's performance shot up. You could look at listening to music the same way: it speeds up the rate of electrical signals in the part of the brain that is also used to write code. I know that when I'm designing a circuit board or working on some graphics routine, listening to fast music shortens the length of time it takes me to perform that task. If I listen to a slow song it takes me longer. The brain really is a computer. It's a multiple bus system with hundreds of processors running asymetrically. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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