I finally woke up for the like 10th time, giving up on trying to get more mythical sleep, at about 3. I did the usual sit and stare at the tasks of the day as well as news, mail, irc, icb, aim, and various linkwhores as well as journals. I came out of the information overload when Lilliane came home and read me the 569 questionaire that my neuropsychologist wants, out on the porch under the umbrella. I watered the plants and brought Selene out on her leash. O By the grueling end, Chris and Nicole showed up bringing the ingredients for pasta night. My brain was mostly spongy, but I try to be entertaining and engaging, even when I feel like dog shit. My sleep and Moon schedule are off.

Our discussions focused on me after Lilliane went to work, and what I focused on was how people interpret body language and communication through vocal conversations. A meandering through vocabulary and the quantity of information we are overload our brains with.

The best description I could come up with was that there was a time before multitasking computers where people read books constantly as well as using computers mainly for word processing. Even the games had limited objects to track because of the hardware. Moving from 2D to 3D in a game was an amazing feat. But the point was that there was a fairly limited number of things we had to pay attention to at once. Now that number is exploding and a lot of us are having some issues keeping up. I pointed out that no one cares what processors or number of cores you have, but that the machine keeps up with what you want or are trying to do. 16 different tasks running with browser pages with tabs while running iChat and Mail is not uncommon. Nicoles brain is used to that. But what if my brain cab only handle 8 and those 8 are being shuffled around to handle the other 8. What happens when it just starts dropping thing equally or all at once and having to restart to get back to where the brain was before… Every single second on the clock for 8-12 hours a day? Now fast forward when this generation meets next generation technology and the have to keep up with 128 or 256 tasks at once? How will their brains hold up? Are we creating a generation that will be so overloaded with input that everything has to be dumbed down to be comprehended in that microsecond?

There’s a lot to say about how two different people interpret the same data from the same source. Nicole interprets things differently than Chris does, beyond the duhhh part. Same context, but the parts that are picked up and discarded are different. It’s a wonder any one ever understand another.

The evening ended on a discussion on if Jupiter had enough mass to be a star and how much light it would emit at night (like 2010) and Chris had to throw in the gravitational changes that would occur with the increased mass. Now my brain has to think about that.

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