SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA (02/02/84)
From: Kenji Sugiyama <SUGIYAMA@SRI-AI.ARPA>
I had a strange experience when I had practiced abacus in Japan.
An abacus is used for adding, subtracting, multipling, and dividing
numbers. The practice consisted of a set of calculations in a definite
amount of time, say, 15 minutes. During that time, I began to think
of something other than the problem at hand. Then I noticed that
fact ("Aha, I thought of this and that!"), and grinned at myself in
my mind. In spite of these detours, I continued my calculations without
an interruption. This kind of experience repeated several times.
It seems to me that my brain might be parallel, at least, in simple tasks.