On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:09:27AM +0000, David C Brown wrote:
> No, it isn't just you.  I stand with bowed head in great awe of
> these mighty brains who can do the demanding intellectual task of
> programming whilst concentrating on listening to music.

Isn't mighty brains.  Merely adaption.  Experiencing music from
parents, siblings, or themselves, while learning how to concentrate as
a child.

One can adapt as an adult to new distractions, but it takes five to
ten times longer than as a child, and it is usually easier to control
the distraction source or set up physical or temporal barriers.

Patting head and rubbing belly at the same time; a classical test of
the operation of cotemporal neural networks that have to share a choke
point; motor cortex.  Some people can do it, most people can learn to
do it.

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