Re: [silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-09-01 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
Ted Chiang's new story touches upon some of these aspects -- http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang

Re: [silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-09-01 Thread SS
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:39 -0700, Thejaswi Udupa wrote: Ted Chiang's new story touches upon some of these aspects -- http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang Well what the heck? I recently wrote an article for my medical college

[silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-08-29 Thread Udhay Shankar N
So, what is the difference between this and other, similar, technology-related laments? Udhay http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/17/our-brains-pay-price-for-gps/d2Tnvo4hiWjuybid5UhQVO/story.html Do our brains pay a price for GPS? How a useful technology interferes with our ‘mental

Re: [silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-08-29 Thread SS
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 21:14 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/17/our-brains-pay-price-for-gps/d2Tnvo4hiWjuybid5UhQVO/story.html My first instinct was to turn the GPS back on so I could stop being lost. snip How GPS affects OUR natural ability to

Re: [silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-08-29 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:55 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: For an article that starts with an example of cognitive bias, it is far faar too long. The husk around the kernel of truth is rather mighty, I agree. Technological progress has a history of promoting a dulling of the mind and body.

Re: [silk] Do our brains pay a price for GPS?

2013-08-29 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
http://io9.com/5987567/brain+to+brain-interfaces-have-arrived-and-they-are-absolutely-mindblowing Humans are the rats in a global experiment called progress with an unclear target outcome.