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Hi all.
Recently I have been dealing with doctors who specialize in brain surgery. I may have a brain problem. Who'd have thought I even had one? Certainly not me!
Things go wrong. I was teaching a prominent DW member some years ago when the entire left side of my body was numb! Weird.
So anyway...
During a conversation with a neurosurgeon I learned that current experiments may show that choices thought to be made by the subconscious, may actually pre-empt conscious thought by up to 7 seconds!!!
I immediately thought about how this affects musical choices. On a jazz gig, for example, one must express "in the moment".
How can we then figure in 7 seconds?
As it turns out 1.5 seconds seems to be more usual.
But still.....
Thoughts?
Recently I have been dealing with doctors who specialize in brain surgery. I may have a brain problem. Who'd have thought I even had one? Certainly not me!
Things go wrong. I was teaching a prominent DW member some years ago when the entire left side of my body was numb! Weird.
So anyway...
During a conversation with a neurosurgeon I learned that current experiments may show that choices thought to be made by the subconscious, may actually pre-empt conscious thought by up to 7 seconds!!!
I immediately thought about how this affects musical choices. On a jazz gig, for example, one must express "in the moment".
How can we then figure in 7 seconds?
As it turns out 1.5 seconds seems to be more usual.
But still.....
Thoughts?