A message in our podcast is that our best source of knowledge is history and not empirical snapshots of reality. History, for example, shows that all information technologies have generated information overloads which have generated efforts to manage and control information. Overloads lead to crises of relativity and management approaches often lead to an over constraining of our knowledge. Our cognitive health and development relies on our ability to get the balance right. Life is constantly striving for stability against unstable backgrounds. Modern technologies, particularly treated as commodities in markets, generate more instabilities than we can deal with on a human scale. It is this level of instability, I argue, that inhibits our ability to make sense of the world leading to a reverse Flynn effect. This approach includes the effects of poor nutrition and chemical pollution.
Also, I was quite moved by your history of domestic violence and the courage of your late Mother. Thanks for sharing that. We are currently experiencing a disturbing increase of murders of women by their male partners in Australia. Perhaps also related to growing fragmentation and confusion and related cognitive impairment.
It would be great to see more research on the causal relationship between technology/ excessive sensory stimulation and cognition. Do you know of any such research? I'm aware of the recent study from Northwestern, and some "reverse Flynn effect" studies, but nothing focusing on how it relates to reliance on technology.
A message in our podcast is that our best source of knowledge is history and not empirical snapshots of reality. History, for example, shows that all information technologies have generated information overloads which have generated efforts to manage and control information. Overloads lead to crises of relativity and management approaches often lead to an over constraining of our knowledge. Our cognitive health and development relies on our ability to get the balance right. Life is constantly striving for stability against unstable backgrounds. Modern technologies, particularly treated as commodities in markets, generate more instabilities than we can deal with on a human scale. It is this level of instability, I argue, that inhibits our ability to make sense of the world leading to a reverse Flynn effect. This approach includes the effects of poor nutrition and chemical pollution.
Also, I was quite moved by your history of domestic violence and the courage of your late Mother. Thanks for sharing that. We are currently experiencing a disturbing increase of murders of women by their male partners in Australia. Perhaps also related to growing fragmentation and confusion and related cognitive impairment.
It would be great to see more research on the causal relationship between technology/ excessive sensory stimulation and cognition. Do you know of any such research? I'm aware of the recent study from Northwestern, and some "reverse Flynn effect" studies, but nothing focusing on how it relates to reliance on technology.