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Are you suggesting our brains are getting better? I find it far more likely that our improved education techniques and our skyrocketing access to information as
by behringer 5mo ago
Are you suggesting our brains are getting better? I find it far more likely that our improved education techniques and our skyrocketing access to information as being the cause.
- nephihaha 5mo agoI suspect the reverse. If you have easy access to an assistant or search engine it means that the need for recall goes down.
- imbnwa 5mo agoThis was Socrates' own warning about writing over 2000 years ago
- nephihaha 5mo agoSocrates was partly right. I am deeply indebted to written notes on just about everything. Pre-literate societies often had excellent memories, and have to rely on them for survival not just culture bearing. The Polynesians had excellent navigation skills without writing. Desert societies can remember oases and routes etc sometimes relying on song to memorise them.
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agoAs King Thamus said to Theuth.
- thesz 5mo agoBetter food.