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> I hypothesise that offloading this brain work to a machine atrophies your cerebral muscles Personally I think this is a myth and the brain is not like some m
by bad_user 12y ago
> I hypothesise that offloading this brain work to a machine atrophies your cerebral muscles
Personally I think this is a myth and the brain is not like some muscle that needs to be kept in shape with a specific set of exercises. Certainly stimulating the brain has been shown to have positive effects in older people, but it hasn't been proven that there's a difference between learning a new language or playing bridge. And nothing proven was found to prevent Alzheimer.
Generally speaking, offloading computations to a machine allows one to concentrate his gray matter on other things and before we come to a conclusion that this leads to brain atrophy, evidence needs to be presented.
- jeangenie 12y agoTrying to view the brain as "just a muscle" is probably simultaneously helpful and misleading in different ways. But I believe the parent's point was more that what is taught is becoming fundamentally different. If you learn how to add using a calculator are you learning to add or learning how to use a calculator? It's a subtle distinction but in practice the ramifications become important.