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The Changing Brain
How information transfer has driven evolution of the brain
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A RIVER OF BREATH
“Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.”Thanks for reading The Changing Brain!
Good Looking
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You Don't Say
We have looked at alphabets, manuscripts, printing, and coding, but we have not looked at the earliest and possibly the most important way we move information—speech. Our ability to move air from our lungs through our vocal cords, palate, tongue, and lips and turn it into communication is uniquely human. To be sure, other animals can make sounds that convey some information, but it is almost all…
AND WHAT WE LOSE
If you remember, we started this series with Julian Jaynes’s idea that writing led to suppression of the non-dominant, hallucinating hemisphere and the loss of the gods.
Learning New Things
“Barring some catastrophic planetary nightfall, the tech industry will create within decades, machines with human-level intelligence and behaviors capable of speech, reasoning, highly coordinated actions in economics, politics and, inevitably, warcraft. The birth of true artificial intelligence will profoundly affect humankind’s future, including whether it has any.”
THE NEW AGE OF FAITH
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson
Information Overload
Thanks for reading The Changing Brain! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. A Sumerian token By 8500 BCE Sumerians settled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq. Annual flooding brought fresh soil to replenish the delta so grain could be grown year after year without depleting the land. Farmers produced more than they needed to sustain…
Run On Sentences
Scripta continua in of the oldest extant Biblical manuscripts There seems to be little question that the new version of artificial intelligence and large language models like Chat GPT will change how we interact with our information sources, and that got me thinking about another time when the way information was transmitted changed. Thanks for reading The Changing Brain! Subscribe for free to…