To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 5 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Powers states: When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking effectively stops. In the not-too-distant future, mid brain naturally bridged to upper brain will be a footnote within the story of human development. […]
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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 6)
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November 1, 2012
Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 5)
To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 4 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Here’s a powerful Powers “bottom line”: Digital consciousness can’t tolerate three minutes of pure focus. Being able to appropriately focus attention for extended periods of time is one of the Executive Function Skills. Executive Functioning tends to […]
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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Externalizing Mind
Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at Levitin’s take on externalizing the mind. Levitin suggests that one effective way of organizing the mind is […]
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