Well done, Ant, and as always, interesting and throughly researched. I like your use of a double comparative, too.
I agree, I think technology has much to blame for the weakening of brain power. We are conditioning ourselves to not have to think, because the answers are so readily available.
So, as the human race embarks further and further along the technological path, it is even more important to exercise the brain, and perhaps specifically in the areas that technology really cannot replicate in an authentic way, ie, creative intelligence and emotional intelligence.
Interesting again. I do not expect AI to have a long-term impact on the average brain, but I may be wrong. The issue of IQ is controversial. You will remember a meeting with Eysenck at the Oxford University Psychology Society. A few years earlier, he was punched and had his glasses broken at the LSE, since some students disagreed with what he was saying.
Yes, do keep musing and amusing us Ant! I don’t think I knew that our brains ( and Ants’) are getting smaller. It seems counter-intuitive to me: on the one hand, yes, we may be specialising more in our work than jack of all trades hunter gatherers and early farmers did – but we have to know how to drive, read a train timetable, use a computer etc etc in order to carry out that one division of labour. Perhaps the shrinkage is just to do with getting leaner and meaner? But what will happen when we start slouching on sofas watching short from videos rather than reading Proust, and no longer need to go to work? Cerebral atrophy? maybe?
Well done, Ant, and as always, interesting and throughly researched. I like your use of a double comparative, too.
I agree, I think technology has much to blame for the weakening of brain power. We are conditioning ourselves to not have to think, because the answers are so readily available.
So, as the human race embarks further and further along the technological path, it is even more important to exercise the brain, and perhaps specifically in the areas that technology really cannot replicate in an authentic way, ie, creative intelligence and emotional intelligence.
Interesting again. I do not expect AI to have a long-term impact on the average brain, but I may be wrong. The issue of IQ is controversial. You will remember a meeting with Eysenck at the Oxford University Psychology Society. A few years earlier, he was punched and had his glasses broken at the LSE, since some students disagreed with what he was saying.
Yes, do keep musing and amusing us Ant! I don’t think I knew that our brains ( and Ants’) are getting smaller. It seems counter-intuitive to me: on the one hand, yes, we may be specialising more in our work than jack of all trades hunter gatherers and early farmers did – but we have to know how to drive, read a train timetable, use a computer etc etc in order to carry out that one division of labour. Perhaps the shrinkage is just to do with getting leaner and meaner? But what will happen when we start slouching on sofas watching short from videos rather than reading Proust, and no longer need to go to work? Cerebral atrophy? maybe?