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Topic: How good software makes us stupid
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Happy Dragon
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From: u.k.
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posted September 13, 2010 09:02 AM
 
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AcousticGod
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posted September 13, 2010 10:28 AM
I was going to reply, but I lost my train of thought.  IP: Logged |
Happy Dragon
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posted September 13, 2010 10:43 AM
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teasel
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From: Ohio
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posted September 13, 2010 02:23 PM
Cabbies are using those now? My cousin has been studying for something like two years, to become a London cabbie, and he's just successfully passed one of several big tests to move on through. He might need a stiff drink after reading this. I just read it properly - so they're only talking about the possibility... re: logic problems - my mother worked through a book of logic problems, after her mother died. She and my Uncle cleaned out her house, whilst they were all still in the one area, and in the evening, she would work through that book. It kept her from being overcome with grief. IP: Logged |
AbsintheDragonfly
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From: Gaia
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posted September 13, 2010 04:13 PM
On one hand, it could be good, on the other, it could really mess with the brain function s the article states.IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted September 14, 2010 09:30 AM
well i think it would be too sad if the cabbies didn't have to learn the knowledge any more. HD's post makes perfect sense to me...just the fact of knowing they are capable of learning the EXTENSIVE and difficult map of london assures that they are not 100% dolts from the start....while anyone can work a navigational system, it takes some discipline and mental "order" to pass the knowledge...which means london cabbies tend to be a cut above yer average jock, AND that they need to know the language at least minimally, which is more than i can say for new york cabbies...of course i am old fashioned. i still do my books and other maths by hand and only use machinery to check correctness...and it usually takes me longer to do by calculator than longhand!! i was very peeved when my daughter was in grade school (86-93) and her TEACHERS expected her to do math with a calculator...and her adult math skills are not too hot as a result, too. it is nice when SOME things do not change completely. especially when the change is for the worse... IP: Logged |
Happy Dragon
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posted September 14, 2010 10:00 AM
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Node
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From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2010 01:11 PM
Brilliant!Yes--
to the makes us stupid.
Fascinating about the correlation of the brain as a muscle and utilizing the cabbie parts.  I wonder if good cabbies are predisposed to it or whatever the word is. As they have already demonstrated superior mapbrains. Luv the photos! What comes to my mind is a picture within a picture.  People viewing what they feel is a memorable event through the tiny technological screen instead of using their memories... or so attuned to the technology that they use it to enhance? I don't know. 
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FrozenQueen
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From: The boundary where 'reality' ends and Dreams begin
Registered: May 2010
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posted September 19, 2010 06:10 PM
It's easy to explain.The brain has two kinds of neurons: myelinated ones and unmyelinated ones. The myelinated fibres are the brain's ELITE pathways, used for information that is important, that is used repetitively and is required at once. Their speed of conduction is several times faster than the unmyelinated ones. The body puts myelin around those neural pathways that are used most often. That is a part of how memory works. ------------------
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teasel
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From: Ohio
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2010 06:44 PM
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The body puts myelin around those neural pathways that are used most often. That is a part of how memory works.
This reminds me of something I read about grooves in the brain, back in 1999/2000, and how they change and grow stronger as you develop new thought/behavioural patterns. I think the name of the book was Emotional Alchemy (and I wish I'd paid more attention to it when I read it - I was going to do the exercises for myself). I remember reading an article earlier this year, about Google and the internet, making us more scattered. I was just thinking about how I'd started to draw again, seven years ago, received a proper easel that Christmas, and joined a few art sites the following years, slowly starting to get back into it, and thoroughly enjoying myself - but I I didn't get very far because I'd been dealing with a lot of pain in my hand, I was too antsy/scattered to sit still for long, and really re-develop that old pattern, which is a shame - I'd lost the discipline. IP: Logged |
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