faul_sname comments on How to avoid dying in a car crash - Less Wrong

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Comment author: faul_sname 26 March 2012 10:40:03PM 2 points [-]

Alternatively, read the rest of this comment while you visualize slowly spinning a rubik's cube on the axis that cuts through opposite corners. If you don't have any trouble doing so, you know that you can see while visualizing. As for myself, I find that I can't do both tasks simultaneously.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 December 2012 06:35:00PM *  1 point [-]

I kind-of can, though the cube image is not that vivid. (It's still something I wouldn't do while driving, though.)

EDIT: BTW, I have several reasons to think that in my case reading mostly involves a part of my brain also used for processing spoken language and different from that used to process non-linguistic visual information, which may be unusual.