The internet has made us its bitch. It has coopted our brain capacity and has molded us into being its sex organs. We are a race beholden to the vices inherent in a runaway technology that was envisioned to change us for the better. It has had the opposite effect. Human beings are becoming more intelligent, but it is intelligence defined by the interent's own terms. We are becoming better at multitasking and quickly processing shallow data streams of information, but we are rapidly losing the ability to think deeply, creatively, and inventively. The human capacitities of mindful knowledge acquisitioon, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection have been eroded.
Are we strapped in for the ride and beholden to our creations, or is there a way to implement change or conscious restraint on a wider scale?
>>450006 I think it's far too early to make such declarative statements about it. As in it's not existed for very long in the scheme of things. It "seems" as if it's sending a lot of people loopy but I don't know if that's just a trick of perspective, or spending too much time online.
Like when I'm going about my day to day IRL most people seem much the same and rather normal, but if you read any sort of comment section, rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk or twitter you'd be forgiven for thinking 99% of humans are mind broken.
Anyway I don't have much of a point other than I don't think it's a s simple as internet = bad. It's going to have all sorts of complicated consequences some good for us and some bad and I doubt we'll understand them for centuries. Or if we take your argument at face value maybe we'll lack the capacity to understand anything by then.
I do think we're strapped in for the ride either way though, I don't see how it's possible for individuals (plebs like me) to effect large scale change on such a vast and complicated system.
>Human beings are becoming more intelligent, but it is intelligence defined by the interent's own terms
The kind of man-machine transition you're alluding to has been going on long before the internet. It's not ground-breaking to recognise that the domestication of man has predated civilization but will continue on until our technology subsumes the man. A clock tells you when you're hungry, most of your working day is spent doing bullshit repetitive tasks like sending emails, we suppress our own nature and act out roles that attach value to your ability to think and act like a machine.
>Are we strapped in for the ride and beholden to our creations, or is there a way to implement change or conscious restraint on a wider scale?
You avoid the cheap dopamine hits offered by the internet, reading a book but also some websites are still good enough if they require an attention span rather than instant gratification.
>>450006 yeah I remember watching some parts of some neuroscientist's interview, and the gist I got from what he was saying is that modern technology made it worse for our brains, that neuron pathways created in our brains in a way that is tantamount to that of an addict, it always craves instant gratification.
One good way to set your mind in order is digital detox, that is, if you can afford it. Get a hobby, enroll in a local ping pong club, or some other interest based clubs.
