Comments on: Don’t Fight Your Default Mode Network

By: Ziz

Ziz — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:30:35 +0000

In reply to Cameron Blandford. No, I haven't read it. I'm internally divided on whether this makes sense as an entire explanation. One of the parts that seems like maybe something more, is it seems to me like arbitrarily-changing rewindable arbitrary context-stimulation somehow helps expand my working memory for things I can't easily write down. I'm not surprised it would contain that idea, given my brief examination of it when I triaged it a few years ago.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:19:18 +0000

I’m not sure I have this but what I do have is a habit of opening a browser to go to my favorite site, e.g. xkcd, read something or just notice there is nothing new, close and go back to work. I notice it immediately and sometimes I immediate close the window. Sometimes I browse longer.

By: Cameron Blandford

Cameron Blandford — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:01:50 +0000

Have you read Pragmatic Thinking & Learning? What you’re describing seems heavily related to a phenomenon described in that book where you can monopolize your verbal/symbolic brain with a menial task to let your spatial/non-verbal/synthesizing brain get work done and let its results surface in your consciousness. Andy Hunt, the author, suggests following labyrinths (in the sense of “mazes without branches”), going for walks, and performing other automatic physical motions that distract your verbal/symbolic brain without taxing it heavily. It sounds like you’re describing a similar phenomenon, but at a notably different timescale.

By: Ziz

Ziz — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:25:32 +0000

I currently think “sleep on it” is probably more things than just DMN.