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Can humans really multitask?

Far more reaches your senses than ever reaches your awareness.

The simple answer

Until you read this sentence, you probably weren't aware of the feeling of your clothes against your skin. The information was arriving the whole time. Attention decides what gets promoted into awareness.

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There's more: far more reaches your senses than ever reaches your awareness. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.

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