The beliefs of a neurology professor, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
I took a ride to a coworker, to a memorial, I saw that as he got into the car, he’d reached for the power button of his navigator, I asked him with shock: you’d taught at the school for a decade, and you still needed the navigation systems to get there? He’d replied, technologies are to benefit people, turning on the navigator, he’d not needed to use his brains, and can save energies in his brains. It’d immediately reminded me of what Socrates said, “the alphabets make people lazy, as soon as alphabets were invented, people stopped remembering things, and transcribed to help them remember things.
Having technology is good sure, but its purpose shouldn’t be replacing the human brain, instead, it’s to help us save the time, the energy, to help us elevate our own spiritual civilization, to better the future of man.
The human mind is use it or lose it, there’s a great experiment from England that showed us the differences of a brain working and one that’s not: in this study, the MRI are used to scan the brains of cabdriver and bus drivers. Although both participants drove for forty-five years of their lives, but, one needed to go by the customers’ demands, to find out how to get to the locations the customers wanted to go to, the other, only needed to follow the set routes of the busses, and can’t make sudden changes. The streets in London are very irregular, and you’d needed to use a LOT of brain power to navigate through, because it was originally a small village by the Thames, and due to needs, it’d slowly, enlarged, and so, the streets weren’t planned out, like the old battle maps of the ancient Chinese masters, those who don’t know the way won’t make their ways out of it. And, the two, after entering into the hippocampus, which is in charge of memory, is quite dissimilar, the cabdriver’s hippocampus was, clearly, larger than the bus driver’s.
I’d told him of this experiment, asked, “Aren’t you afraid your neural network will deteriorate away?”, he’d told me no, “I’d used the space, to learn new things.”
This is, a mistaken belief, that long-term memories are limitless, that after the capacity is filled, the brain can’t learn anything new. As Conan Doyle was writing “Sherlock Holmes”, he’d said something wrong that misled a ton of his readers. In the book, Holmes told Watson, that he’d needed to forget what Watson just told him, to save the space in his brains. Up to today, we still had yet to find a person, who’d remembered too much, that can no longer remember new things, just seen that the more you learned, the easier learning gets. But for us, relying more and more on the machines by the day, and one day, without the machines, we wouldn’t know, how to live anymore, because the biggest problem of reliance is that we’re, being, limited by what and whom we relied on.
There was a friend who’d taken a restaurant in the U.S. and asked me to head on board. My father told me no, that I’d needed to do everything myself, that I didn’t know how to cook, and so, I shouldn’t, be a shareholder, and surely, as his head chef, when the guests were filling up the restaurant, he’d mentioned he’d wanted a raise, and be a shareholder of the restaurant, and he’d not agreed, and so, the head chef just, took his apron off, and left. After that he was deeply impacted, he’d started learning to cook, and, at anytime he’d needed to, he’d taken off his suit and put that apron on, and start working in the kitchens. He’s now, very successful, and owns a chain in the U.S. now.
We can’t know everything, but, anything relating our lives or our fields of expertise, we’d needed to know as much as we can, recently, there’s a total power outage in Taiwan, the banks can’t work, the sales clerk can’t check out the customers, everything was halted, but, these two things, can be done, manually.
On our return trip, my friend had a little extra to drink, so I took the wheel. As we got into the car, he’d returned to the old measures, wanted to set up the navigator for me. I’d told him it wasn’t necessary, that I know how to get to my own home. He’d told me bashfully, that he’d used the navigator to get himself home too, he’d gotten used to relying on it, without it, he wouldn’t, know how to get home.
Ahhhhhhhh! One day, when the machines took control over man, it would NOT be because they’re too amazing, but because of how LAZY we’d become, we’d, handed over the controls of our live to them.
So, this would be, the DOWNSIDE of all the technological advances in the world, because, as technologies get smarter, the humans get DUMBER, because we will eventually, become too dependent on these machines to do things that we were doing on our own before those machines ever got invented, and, thus, we wouldn’t be, working our brains enough, which means, we’d all become, too STUPID, because the rule of thumb with the brains is, you either USE them, or you LOSE them!!!
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