10/ But there's deeper phenomenon here: metacognition. Mind wandering makes us interrupt driven by design. Metacognition makes us good at it
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11/ The critical thing to understand is that a "task" or "thread" is not magically defined *for* us by psychologists or Charlie Munger
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12/ We are doing this *constantly*. We factor and refactor recursively all the way down. Defining "tasks" dynamically IS metacognition
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I think it's a weak, limiting frame. Mind-wandering is a more powerful conceptualization. It's not an internet-age thing
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but in re mind-wandering, eye saccades, bee foraging patterns etc are representable as Lévy flights
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oh like if you track people's eye movements or put little beacons on bees, the patterns traced out are fractal.
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or consider en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Levy —little clusters represent a "task" and the big jumps are context switches.
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it's like the smooth evolution vs punctuated equilibria debate. Silly in some ways, interesting on others
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