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Michel Roland-Guill

Your Outboard Brain Knows All - 0 views

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Clive Thompson cerveau mémoire lettrure

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  • My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us.
  • Of course, it's probably not an either/or proposition. I want both: I want my organic brain to contain vast stores of knowledge and my silicon overmind to contain a stupidly huge amount more.
  • by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming
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  • the surreal and delightful experience of Googling a topic only to unearth an old post that I don't even remember writing
  • it's what author Cory Doctorow refers to as an "outboard brain."
  • There's another type of intelligence that comes not from rapid-fire pattern recognition but from slowly ingesting and retaining a lifetime's worth of facts.
  • You read War and Peace.
  • Then you let it all ferment in the back of your mind for decades, until, bang, it suddenly coalesces into a brilliant insight.
  • We've come to think of human intelligence as being like an Intel processor, able to quickly analyze data and spot patterns. Maybe there's just as much value in the ability to marinate in the seemingly trivial.
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