Trying to simultaneously concentrate or focus on two unrelated tasks such as typing this reply while continuously singing 'bye bye miss american pie', unabated, would be pure folly.
I am doing just that, as I'm typing this - but only because I know off by heart all thirteen minutes of it! (which tells you how old I am!)
Our subconscious accounts for a lot of our actions such as breathing and mechanical operations but we don't need to focus intently on those actions. Unless we are drowning or asthmatic. Perhaps a savant or suchlike person could conceivably carryout a true simultaneous multitask but... I dunno?
The Pookwife's great grandfather could add up two columns of figures simultaneously with a pencil in both hands. It's not that uncommmon.
You're from across the Tasman? One thing I know is that Kiwis can't do anything else while watching rugby, except drink beer!
