Keyboards whose keys are raised in proportion to their use.
(BoingBoing via Neatorama)
“Our brains were never even designed to read. This “technology” is something that we have to train our brains to do…There is a fear by many, Mr. Keller included, that these devices will wipe out our ability to remember and force us to become dependent on the virtual world. Luckily for us humans, our brains do not work this way. Research shows that the human brain is capable of adapting to new technologies in less than a week, irrelevant of age or intellect.
The human brain evolved for over 400,000 years without reading. It was just in the last few thousand that we’ve been forced to learn a new technology. We sometimes forget that concepts as unconscious as reading, was at one point, a new technology. I wonder what the technology will be in a thousand years in humans that doesn’t exist today but becomes just as ubiquitous as reading?
whoever made this. you are amazing dot com slash god bless you!
finally, now i can hold my own at those coffee shops!
I am going to print this out and put it in my pocket.
Minds emerge when the activity of small circuits is organized across large networks so as to compose momentary patterns. The patterns represent things and events located outside the brain, either in the body or in the external world, but some patterns also represent the brain’s own processing of other patterns. The term map applies to all those representational patterns, some of which are coarse, while others are very refined, some concrete, others abstract. In brief, the brain maps the world around it and maps its own doings. Those maps are experienced as images in our minds, and the term image refers not just to the visual kind but to images of any sense origin such as auditory, visceral, tactile, and so forth.
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Self Comes to Mind, Antonio Damasio (via michellecapocefalo)
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