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Digital ink, fleeting soundbites, and impatience for depth > collateral societal damage. Our brains are adapting without thought of consequence.
More than 6,000 years ago, our brains created a new circuit which enabled literacy. It’s not genetic but environmental. #Thread
More than 6,000 years ago, our brains created a new circuit which enabled literacy. It’s not genetic but environmental. #Thread
“Thinking, Fast and Slow” documents the challenge of moving from emotional (fast) to thoughtful (slow) reactions when communication was slower and paper-based. Now, with frictionless likes/shares and bite-sized windows into text on phones...
kahneman.socialpsychology.org
kahneman.socialpsychology.org
Researchers like @MaryanneWolf_ point out that “slower, time-demanding deep reading processes” help the brain (us!) think critically, form empathy, develop logic (reasoning). Yet our smartphone/Kindle/iPad culture discourages those practices.
