So I've apparently gone from bingeing #atheist responses to Christian #apologists on #YouTube (which gets really old after awhile as there are like five arguments total), to bingeing people doing scathing #reviews of extremely bad #books .
That's... an improvement I guess?
Also, why does my brain always want sound (and not just music-sound) going on while I'm working? You'd think it'd be distracting or something. #brains
@ceoln Nope! Music is engaging your default mode network so that the task part of your brain can focus. https://www.additudemag.com/default-mode-network-adhd-brain/ #adhd
@wendynather
Yeah... that makes sense for music; but often the brain wants actual talking and stuff, with semantics but not semantics that I need to pay real attention to (old episodes of Bones, or people refuting the Ontological Argument, or reviewing terrible books that I don't care about).
I guess that could be the same thing, in a way? Maybe the music doesn't engage that part of the network quite hard enough sometimes. :)
@ceoln I suspect so — do you put on familiar stuff, or complete new things that you really have to give a lot of attention to?
I’ve been known to sing along with music if it’s in a different language from the one I’m typing in 🤷🏻♀️
@wendynather
I think ideally it's new things that I don't have to give a lot of attention to. :) That is, not familiar enough to be boring, but not (hm) notable enough to demand real attention.
That's great about singing in one language while typing in another!
Reminds me that listening to music with lyrics in a language that I don't speak is often in the sweet spot also, moreso than purely instrumental music.
@wendynather Utterly! :)
@ceoln Our brains are fascinating, aren’t they?