there’s a whole part in “orality and literacy” (one of the best and most important books i’ve ever read fwiw) about the moral panic in the early days of writing that we would outsource all our remembering and thinking to writing rather than memorizing everything we needed to know
squarely rooted
I've got a new blog post on cognitive offloading.
Storing our memories outside our heads. Googling things rather than trusting our knowledge.
And a few words on the costs of using AI in terms of learning, ownership of ideas, and feelings of self-efficacy.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...
Our memories aren’t contained just within our heads. We offload them to pictures, social media, and devices. But this offloading carries risks.
