I was in the thing for 30 minutes, but it could have been 5 minutes or 4 hours for all I knew. Your conscious brain then struggles to rebuild the model of your body that has been hardwired in to deal with more normal situations.It’s an extremely interesting experience, and not a little unnerving.I’ll gloss over some of the other effects (.cough.), but you also lose track of time completely. I guess this is because your central nervous system is amplifying what little input it is getting, which emphasizes the areas with more touch receptors. This is true for pretty much any `expert’ activity that you want to be able to carry out – driving a car, walking across a station concourse without bumping into anyone, instantly judging the merits of the latest hip hop download. His topic is the relation between our conscious selves and the vast but unconscious thinking power we all possess, and that Andy is describing above.The process of becoming an expert on a musical instrument seems to be the act of shifting the required computation from the conscious `where is the key I need to press next’ level into the much more powerful subconscious.

Andrew Liddle Says:I’ve just finished reading `Thinking, fast and slow’ by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, which I’d strongly recommend to anyone who hasn’t read it (especially the first half). That was a typewriter (remember those?) which was a) electric, b) had a correction ribbon, c) had three different letter widths (this was known as executive mode (perhaps because only letters written on behalf of executives were important enough to need this feature)-something which VMS fans will appreciate-and was a sort of quantized proportional font) and d) selectric (IBM’s name for a typewriter which, instead of individual keys, had balls which spin around to the appropriate letter before being pressed to the paper by changing the balls one could change fonts).

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