No Cell Phone Use in Cars - Not Even Hands Free?

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You should come to one of our men's chorus practices and watch our pianist carry on a conversation with multiple people simultaneously while playing the piano and she's looking at them and not her score. Technically it is correct that we can't do two different things at exactly the same time any more than two solid objects can occupy the same space at the same time but our brains are capable of multitasking at an extremely high rate of speed. Good thing otherwise we wouldn¡¯t be able breath and have a heartbeat at the same time. Our brains manage all our bodily functions and process input data from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin and still allow us to walk, talk, and chew gum all the time. Likewise, we are capable of seeing on-coming traffic, maintaining control of our vehicle, carrying on a conversation, reading road signs, and watching for obstructions all during the same period of time. Our brains are multiplexing from one event to the next in such rapid succession we don't even notice it. Just moving our eyes to scan the horizon requires millions of snapshots taken, developed, and processed into a smooth image for us to see and the rest of our body doesn¡¯t have to be shut down while this is happening.<O:p</O:p
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To me the biggest concern is that we need to physically look at a phone keypad, radio button, temperature dial, digital monitor, CD selection, ash tray, visor mirror, and other passengers in order to engage these things. It is most impossible to monitor the road at the same time and so we put ourselves and others in greater danger. Hands-free eliminates this aspect from the equation. <O:p</O:p

cool! Extend my greetings to your pianist. I am a player too. I loved the augumented chords, dim, flatted etc:D i basically do jazz - crazy jazz.
I hate Key B Major.

However, playing from a music book requires 100% attention.

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My mom is a typical example when it comes to multitasking. She is an alien. She has perfect coordination.
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One hand is stirring her soup in the kitchen, the other is rinsing the bowls. At the same time she is talking to me: 'Get out of here - don't steal my meat.' At the same time she is monitoring her grand daughter, my niece, who is playing outside. At the same time she notices someone knocking at the door and orders us to go open the door. Her left ear listens to the converstion going on in the parlor; the other ear listens to the music from the speakers. Her feet stamp musically, her tongue justifies the taste of her food. At the same time she is nodding approvingly to the husband's request: 'May I have a piece of meat?'.
She is a perfect woman.

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Yet - the government is just being government on cell phone issue.

 

[WIP]

That was just too funny but I can sure relate. :toofunny

Different people do seem to have different levels of this ability too. I'm one of those who doesn't always hear when people are talking to me. If I'm watching something on television, reading, sitting in front of a computer screen, or otherwise preoccupied I will rarely hear it when someone talks to me unless they make it a point to call me by name and get my attention. My wife gets down right angry with me for this. I have to keep reminding her that I don't pay attention to other peoples' conversations unless I'm involved so if you want me to reply, make sure I know you are talking to me, otherwise it's just background noise that I filter out. I think a lot of this comes from being brought up in a larger family. There were seven of us kids in my family and so there was always something going on in the background and you learned to block it out.