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I object to your use of autonomic body functions as evidence that a human can multitask.
While a person can have some degree of control over the rate and depth of breathing, it is, in essence, an automatic function of the human body, the same as blood circulation and digestion. These processes occur whether a human wants them to or not and does not require any effort. They are regulated by parts of the brain to which humans do not have conscious access.
Multitasking, as presented, is the [i]conscious and deliberate[/i] attempt to perform more than one task at a time. Walking and breathing or reading and digesting lunch would [b]not[/b] be examples of this phenomenon as one task in the pair is performed automatically by the body [i]without conscious[/i] effort.
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Thats the mistake of modern science ... deliberating a system in pieces, not like a whole.
As long as we speak just for[i] the [/i][i]conscious[/i] we are assuming just a part of the system in some carantine manner, but I'm not sure that the solution lies in cutting the relations of the conscious from the other parts of the mind existence. And whats conscious is relative, you see people assume it in a very vertical way - a focus, hence make it invalid in congition.
And for the computers...you think they have conscious or just make automatic functions calculating ... like we breathing...?