10-31-2009, 05:06 PM | #31 |
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Others have been addressing the silly assumption that the brain hasn't been updated in 40,000 years. But there is the other silly assumption in the article-- that we will be able to "upgrade the software and hardware" of the brain in a few decades. But the functioning of the mind is in both the chemical environment of the brain and the fine details of it's physical structure-- there is no "software", it is all "hardware"-- and I think making structural modifications to it will prove to be very, very difficult, especially a mere "few decades" from now.
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11-01-2009, 02:28 AM | #32 |
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I think the brain would have gotten a bigger shock, when the TV came in... Until then all our stimuli was auditory and then all of a sudden it became visually...
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It's why TTS isn't attractive to me, and I have several partially-blind friends who have returned Kindles after they've found many of the books they wanted had TTS disabled. |
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11-01-2009, 10:02 AM | #34 |
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That doesn't surprise me, unfortunately. Still, if I were using it for proofreading my own writing, there wouldn't be any kind of DRM or disabled features on the files so this wouldn't be an issue.
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You'd think someone they let teach people at university would be analytical enough to not generalize based on his own feelings/views.
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The Internet and mobile devices has already done this, ebooks just compliment the mobility of data.
When we have little goggles that work ANYWHERE in the world and can get any kind of information from a book to a newspaper to a map and also display virtual data overlaid on top of reality then we will truly change as humans. I imagine being able to look at a table and tapping a button to find what style of table it is, the history of those tables, the materials the table is made from etc. Yes I read a lot of sci-fi hehe |
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