Re: righty turning lefty
About being able to write 2 different things at the same time, I don't think any human being can consciously do so. Why? Try thinking 2 different streams of thought at once. It's impossible for me to do.
I'm open to the idea of perhaps being able to copy two different things with 2 different hands, because motor skills can fairly easily be trained to be done without conscious thought. (Eg: walking, driving a car, throwing a ball.) But I still don't think I'd be able to do that either, because when I copy notes, I copy down words, (or sometimes letters if it's a word I've never seen before,) but both still involve higher processing, and for me, using my phonological buffer. I say the words/letters in my head, and I can't say 2 things in my head at once. I think I'm pretty usual when it comes to this, but I know there're some people who may do things differently that I do. (Dyslexics for example, often don't do the same processes when it comes to reading and writing especially, and maybe the way they do it would be more conducive to being able to writing 2 things at once.)
Then there's people who have their corpus callosum cut for medical reasons, (the bundle of nerves connecting the 2 halves of the brain), and they're definitely disjunct people. The right hand literally doesn't know what the left one does, among many other things. But they still seem to only be able to be aware of 1 of themselves. (Or perhaps that's only because there's 1 side of the brain involved in language and communication, which there largely is, so these people can't ever communicate a second conciousness.)
About being able to write 2 different things at the same time, I don't think any human being can consciously do so. Why? Try thinking 2 different streams of thought at once. It's impossible for me to do.
I'm open to the idea of perhaps being able to copy two different things with 2 different hands, because motor skills can fairly easily be trained to be done without conscious thought. (Eg: walking, driving a car, throwing a ball.) But I still don't think I'd be able to do that either, because when I copy notes, I copy down words, (or sometimes letters if it's a word I've never seen before,) but both still involve higher processing, and for me, using my phonological buffer. I say the words/letters in my head, and I can't say 2 things in my head at once. I think I'm pretty usual when it comes to this, but I know there're some people who may do things differently that I do. (Dyslexics for example, often don't do the same processes when it comes to reading and writing especially, and maybe the way they do it would be more conducive to being able to writing 2 things at once.)
Then there's people who have their corpus callosum cut for medical reasons, (the bundle of nerves connecting the 2 halves of the brain), and they're definitely disjunct people. The right hand literally doesn't know what the left one does, among many other things. But they still seem to only be able to be aware of 1 of themselves. (Or perhaps that's only because there's 1 side of the brain involved in language and communication, which there largely is, so these people can't ever communicate a second conciousness.)
Comment