I am still live cutting multiple (Five) cameras, tweaking audio levels and operating a chyron simultaneouly. However, I can't do it while drinking beer. Us kiwis do have our limitations.
...unlike Australians, who can drink beer and do anything else at the same time!
While I do agree it is simple to carry out several tasks consciously at the same time, one cannot focus intently on Two tasks simultaneously (at the same instant) try holding your hand up and focusing on your thumb and little finger at the same time. It is easy to flick between the Two but once you try to focus on both at the same time it becomes something else, all I see anyway is a hand. Maybe my eyes are too close together.
That brings in another variable altogether - vision, and especially peripheral vision. You cannot 'focus' physically with both eyes on two objects apart from each other. But this is equivocal language. You're talking about two different kinds of focussing - one with the eyes and the other with the brain or mind. I can be aware of both fingers at the same time and in that sense 'focus' on them both with my mind (even if they are not completely in focus with my eyes) because I have good peripheral vision and can see them both at once if I look between them. In fact I can be aware of all my fingers at once and also of the hand as a whole.
