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no, using a search engine saves you from having to remember things, freeing the mind to focus on the actual mental agility of processing the facts, reasoning, f
by sfphotoarts 17y ago
no, using a search engine saves you from having to remember things, freeing the mind to focus on the actual mental agility of processing the facts, reasoning, finding connections etc.
The mind needs exercise, but remembering facts that are trivial isn't helping much.
Think of Google as the calculator for knowledge. A calculator saves you from having to find the square root of a number, allowing you to figure out something useful and meaningful from the answer.
- edw519 17y ago"The mind needs exercise, but remembering facts that are trivial isn't helping much" You base this fundamental conclusion upon what data? (I guess you'll google it.)
- sfphotoarts 17y agono, I thought about it. It's not a conclusion, its a supporting comment. Think what gives your brain the most exercise, remembering the 15th decimal place of PI or working out in your head how much extra light enters an aperture when you increase the radius by 20%.
- andreyf 17y agousing a search engine saves you from having to remember things Being able to pagefault into Googling something is very different from knowing it off-hand. You're easily able to relate and see patterns in immediate knowledge, but not in things you'd need to look up.