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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
it is probably a mistake, in the end, to ask software to improve our thinking. Even if you can rescue your attention from the acid bath of the internet; even if you can gather the most interesting data and observations into the app of your choosing; even if you revisit that data from time to time — this will not be enough. It might not even be wort... See more
Your mind, given free undistracted time, will automatically think back over everything it absorbed, and it will start to draw links between them in new ways. This all takes place beneath the level of your conscious mind, but this process is how “new ideas pop together, and suddenly, two thoughts that you didn’t think had a relationship suddenly hav
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Those who say we’re often better off, like Jonah Lehrer, tech writer and author of How We Decide, claim that stimulating our brains in different ways can make us more creative and open to new ideas.
Daniel Sieberg • The Digital Diet: The 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life
Our mind is similar: by looking at how our brain is structured, we can learn where we came from and understand more about our evolutionary history. We can learn, for example, that we are rewarded for being social—a good amount of our brain’s structure is devoted to connecting with others. We can observe that the outer layers of our brain—such as th
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