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The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain
- nehal3m 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20230509160741/https://www.wired.com/story/aging-brain-volume/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230509160741/https://www.wired...
- hn_throawlles 3y agobecause occulted technology is sucking the life-force out of you and selling back to you some part of it as electricity. the trick is the fractional way they do this, only taking a 'negligible' fraction of each of the millions of humans... but it adds up, and what is worse, is that it's greedy... so the fraction keeps going up and up and up, sucking more and more down faster and faster but most will surely prefer the academic explanation, a lot less magic in that one than in this comment
- nehal3m 3y agoAnd yet more mystery.
- hn_throawlles 3y agothe "mystery" is part of it it creates a curiosity, which has a softkind of drawing gravitational pull. I know I'm vulnerable to this. The mystery drives motivation, hence the connection to energy (the capacity to do work). the curiosity propels my own motivation (willingness to spend my energy) to investigate these things, and others like it. edit: I am sorry that what I have had to think to make my own sense of this complex reality upsets some people.
- namaria 3y agoThis kind of nonsense drivel detracts from fact based critiques of current realities. Do you at least propose something to be done or is it all just mumbo-jumbo?
- mrwnmonm 3y agoIt is not nonsense. But I don't agree with the electricity part thou.
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- hn_throawlles 3y agoto be fair, in my edit above i mean a sorry but not sorry kind of sorry. mumbo jumbo for one person is another's deep insightful explanation... what's more curious is that i understand your perspective and you don't understand mine (not yet) as for a proposal? dunno, I propose we all master the mysteries is the only think that comes to mind
- sdwr 3y agoAs an occasionally crazy person myself, I agree. Tried living without electricity for a few weeks in 2020, everything felt much more sharp and visceral. Feels like modern tech has a numbing, coddling effect. You can explain it however you want, but I experienced the same thing as this guy, that electricity "middlemans" my life force, trading the high and lows for predictability, BNW Soma-style.
- hattmall 3y agoI mean duh, how is that surprising? It's entirely about convience, entertainment and comfort.
- voisin 3y agoI would be very interested to hear more about your weeks of living without electricity. I assume this wasn’t just going camping but rather you had the remaining components of modern life (running water, toilet) but by no electricity did you also not have a fridge?
- mise_en_place 3y agoAdvertising did the same too, as did TV and radio. Attention is a finite and scarce resource, that’s why companies have always targeted it.
- wyldberry 3y agoIt's been interesting to watch the health and fitness space around brain health and correlations with diet and exercise. People seem to finally be converging around some common truths that have been known for thousands of years. I All roads seem to be pointing towards finding a balance between what we are evolved for as a species and modern life.
- ben_w 3y agoWe didn't know anything about diet thousands of years ago beyond "this tastes nice" and "I'm hungry", we merely endured starvation, prions, and scurvy… or died because we couldn't endure it. Sometimes we just got lucky with good fishing or fertile farmland, but we were never in control. I'm not confident enough about the history of exercise to make an equivalent claim for that.
- JohnFen 3y ago> We didn't know anything about diet thousands of years ago beyond "this tastes nice" and "I'm hungry" I'm not so sure. Some ancient societies had a pretty advanced idea of what makes a good diet. And people in any time period can tell that "if I eat this way, I feel better and if I eat that way, I feel worse".
- xeromal 3y agoYup, national height increasing rapidly after the advent of easy food is a clear indication humans have been malnourished for a long time
- throw74774 3y agoNot necessarily. There are health disadvantages that come from being taller, and also from having higher caloric intake. It could be that we’re adapted to less food, and when we have more we get both taller and less healthy on average.
- wyldberry 3y agoYet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which had defense chemicals that didn't make them suitable to eat), and prioritized certain animals for hunting. One thing I find interesting with that is how tightly coupled mongol armies were to an animal based diet, and how they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies. You'll often find many people not willing to wade into discussing food and exercise anymore because peiple treat it almost religiously. It makes discussion hard in the space because now food is so tightly coupled with society and culture. We know the ancient greeks and romans exercised. Warriors of successful societies prioritized being fit of body. To have a discussion we'd have to get to common definitions of what exercise is.
- WalterBright 3y agoI've seen a similar article about the Australian natives who walked 5-9 miles per day.
- mkehrt 3y agoThat it's good for them? Or bad? I walk about that much, and if I don't I start to get pretty antsy.
- JohnFen 3y ago10 miles a day doesn't sound like a remarkable amount to me at all.
- namaria 3y agoWhat portion of humanity do you think actually move that much?
- JohnFen 3y agoThe majority, or reasonably close to it, I imagine. The average American walks about 2 miles per day (about half what is considered the minimum recommended amount -- and half of what the average American child walks), and I rather suspect that most of the world walks more than the average american.
- namaria 3y agoYou do realize 2 is much less then 10?
- droopyEyelids 3y agoonly 4.5% of the world's population lives in the USA
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- mrwnmonm 3y agoModernity... LOL
- anthk 3y agoMove you a?? and so some exercise.
- mrwnmonm 3y agoSo ya so
- julianeon 3y agotl;dr: It's exercise, or physical activity. That's why these tribe members' brains are aging more slowly.
- v8xi 3y agoReminds me of this article which talks about how the introduction of the 'western' diet corresponded with a systemic deterioration of societal health: https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/04/the-modern-diet-is-a-biosecurity-threat/ https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/04/the-modern-diet-is-a...
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoMaybe we'll finally come around to the idea that intelligence is not the be-all, end-all... wisdom deserves respect too. Of course first we'll nearly annihilate ourselves, but whatever, you people want that to happen so get on with it. (rage-downvote harder while you're at it, truth hurts don't it.)