Internet and our Mind

Hi to all,
It's been a long time since i have gone through the blog, busy schedule and other stuffs, Anyway this time i have gone through some nice videos on TED Talk and I wish to share some main points from it.

What internet is doing to our brains-Nichilas Carr

Why do we have smart phone

Benefit

1.       We crave information as sex as it release of dopamine (encourage you to do things over and over again)

2.       Being able to find information increases a odds of survival

3.       Know everything that is going around us

4.       We get rewards when we know what is going around us (socially attractive, raises social status)

Digital environment that we enter through smartphone

Compulsive behavior to point out phone when there is no reason to do it (searching for new message or notification, check phone or computer to go to bed, to get up)

People spend 10 seconds and look for the link to check another information (grabs a zist and then leave for another information) (3300 text a month =1 text/6 min)

Adults pull out 160 times in a day

-          Get habit of interrupted.

Drawback

1.       Working memory (tiny capacity, 2/4 elements in conscious mind at any given moment)

2.       Long-term Memory (long capacity, memory consolidation)

3.       Keep to deep thinking is being able to take the information that is coming into mind from what we are learning, from reading, conversation from short-term memory and transformation from short-term memory to long term memory is memory consolidation.

4.       Overloading of short-term memory by lots of information  (never keeping information in our attention to form the rich connections)

5.       Researcher in Stanford in California gather two groups (one multitasking High), light multitasking.  Two groups given basic tasks of cognitive functions (deep thought, well thoughts). Heavy multitask-er did worse on all six tasks.  (Even on multitasking task, they were found worse)  Burning mental energy switching from one thing to another.

6.       Important information from trivia, multitasks performed much worse, not able to distinguish important information from trivia.  The more time we jump from bits of information to bits of information, the less we worry about how important something is as we will be attacked to new ones, important once is not given importance.

7.       Patrician Greenfield, university of California at Los Angeles. 50 different experiment to see how media influence the things.  There is a benefit for all the things we spent online.  We seem to have greater visual acuity (we can shift our focus quickly among more images on screen than before , what we lose is not able to do mindful knowledge acquisition, creative thinking, reflective thinking and critical thinking)

8.       Fundamental aspect of highest forms of human thinking are acquisition of mindful knowledge.

9.       Being slave to technology, we have cut out slaves off from highest forms of thinking.

10.   First step is speed of gathering inform

11.   Second stage, more important to cut oneself from all incoming information and think deeply what is being discovered and it is fading away from us due to technology. (society values the speed to gather information)

Connected but alone? Sherry Turkle

1.       Too many of getting text is a problem

2.       They don’t change what we do but also what we are as well.

3.       Text during all meetings,

4.       People get connected through text and emails but they are not physically connected which led them not being able to even communicate, ie, they can’t say the word that is meant to be said or dealt in right time, as we can edit and make it what we only good things makes us unable to deal in real world.

5.       Someday siri will be more like best friend as there won’t be any other person listing to them

6.       Roberts will be there for us (sociable robots) and we won’t have each other.  Pretend empathy. 

7.       We expect more from technology and less from ourselves

8.       Technology appeals to us most where we are most vulnerable, we are lonely but afraid of intimacy.  Social networks and sociable robots give us illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. 

9.       1. Put our attention where we wanted to be. 2. We will always be heard 3. That we will never have to be alone. (central to changing our psyches)

1.   Before I have a feeling, I want to make a call. Now it is: I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.

1  I share therefore I am

1  Connection to Isolation. (cultivate capacity to solitude, the ability to be separate to gather yourself) Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachment.

1  “If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely.”

1  We need to listen each other.

1Redefining how we care for each other and how we care for ourselves.