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For me personally, the internet has made my brain better at remembering associations between ideas, but worse at free-recall of factual information. It's like m
by BitwiseFool 6y ago
For me personally, the internet has made my brain better at remembering associations between ideas, but worse at free-recall of factual information. It's like my mind got better at indexing at the expense of storage.
- ravi-delia 6y agoThat's actually the perfect explanation. Even studying cognitive science I'm always amazed at how analogous the brain is to a computer.
- ohduran 6y agoAh, that's interesting, I read it the opposite way: computers are so different from the brain that the end result is that they complement each other really well.
- codecutter 6y agoMy mind got better at indexing at the expense of storage >> Well said. I am going to use your quote :) (so that it moves to my long-term memory.) Thank you.
- leetreveil 6y agoI'm going to steal your quote too, if I can remember it ;)
- sixdimensional 6y agoPerhaps the information "explosion", "deluge" or "overload" is part of it. There is so much - or too much - information, we can still ingest a lot, maybe we rely on making the connections and finding the generalities/mental models because there are too many specifics.