I'd forgotten I had this thought. I really need some sort of waterproof whiteboard.
Was down in a fun rabbit-hole with controlling computers by thought and what would be reasonably doable these days when I started "thinking" keystrokes, seeing how that worked out, letter by letter. Ideally, of course, whole words would be transcribable. But keystrokes... my fingers know the keyboard better than I do. They know what character I want to hit without me thinking "a b c d e". Then I got to "{" and ... curly bracket ... open curly bracket ... open block ... I can type that twenty times in the time it takes to "think" it.
There's certainly an idea I'm having when I know that's the character I want, and that idea is obviously faster than the muscle-time it takes to hit it (something has to instigate those muscles' movement, yes?) .. but I don't seem to be able to make myself aware of what that "idea" is, or at least I can't seem to make it "loud" enough to hear it with my mental ear.
Makes me really, really want a nice "squid" to play around with. See what I can make it learn.
Was down in a fun rabbit-hole with controlling computers by thought and what would be reasonably doable these days when I started "thinking" keystrokes, seeing how that worked out, letter by letter. Ideally, of course, whole words would be transcribable. But keystrokes... my fingers know the keyboard better than I do. They know what character I want to hit without me thinking "a b c d e". Then I got to "{" and ... curly bracket ... open curly bracket ... open block ... I can type that twenty times in the time it takes to "think" it.
There's certainly an idea I'm having when I know that's the character I want, and that idea is obviously faster than the muscle-time it takes to hit it (something has to instigate those muscles' movement, yes?) .. but I don't seem to be able to make myself aware of what that "idea" is, or at least I can't seem to make it "loud" enough to hear it with my mental ear.
Makes me really, really want a nice "squid" to play around with. See what I can make it learn.
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Ooohh! Get freezer paper--the white stuff butchers use to wrap meat. It's plastic on one side, so it won't fall apart when wet--and use a wax pencil on that. That way you can take your musings out of the shower with you and transcribe them!
Doesn't this shower thought simply say that the right brain works more than a left-brained computer ever can?
Who knows the wonders of the human brain? But it still all boils down to electro-chemistry, as far as I'm concerned. Any sufficiently powerful computer... :)