Imagine two body-building gyms, A and B.
Gym A beautifully enlarges the left side of your lower body and the right side of your upper body. Gym B does that to the other two quarters of your body.
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Gym A beautifully enlarges the left side of your lower body and the right side of your upper body. Gym B does that to the other two quarters of your body.
1/5
That’s what “Higher Education” has done to our brains. It has created two slightly overlapping populations of partially developed people.
I call them
The Reading-list People
and
The Problem-set People.
It’s worked OK, we think. Or has it?
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I call them
The Reading-list People
and
The Problem-set People.
It’s worked OK, we think. Or has it?
2/5
We don’t know for sure, because it takes a whole-brain person to see the gaps in our understanding.
So here we are; we have big World Problems like Global Warming and the Destruction of Liberal Democracy By The Internet that are too big for our partially developed brains.
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So here we are; we have big World Problems like Global Warming and the Destruction of Liberal Democracy By The Internet that are too big for our partially developed brains.
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What is to be done?
1. A critical mass of Reading-list People and Problem-set People must agree that there is a big opportunity if they work together.
2. They must find an important World Problem and then find a way to work on it that creates a larger, *collective* brain.
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1. A critical mass of Reading-list People and Problem-set People must agree that there is a big opportunity if they work together.
2. They must find an important World Problem and then find a way to work on it that creates a larger, *collective* brain.
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3. If they come up with a useful proposal, then the real work begins: they must convince the rest of us that we need it.
Is this even possible? I think it’s necessary.
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Is this even possible? I think it’s necessary.
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