Very helpful discussion of the pros and cons of cognitive offloading. We all do it, the question is how and for what kinds of tasks. Cognitive offloading for performance of things you've learned how to do? Okey-dokey. Cognitive offloading during learning? Much less okey-dokey.
Jeff Greene
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.
