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Marta Truś-Buchajska's avatar

Thank you for this post. It lifted my spirits. As an anthropologist and someone who sees these shortcuts, heuristics, metaphors and other ways of explaining and understanding the world, you mentioned, I often feel very lonely when I hear that with technology we can speed up, multi-task better and that people who have a "better" developed system first (implicitly people with ADHD , according to one of my students, - I teach neuroinstructional design) will cope and simply displace the less well-adjusted. And I feel deep down (and know from neuroscience) that this is a pipe dream and that loneliness, depression, confusion, overwhelm, etc., are just the side effects of not respecting our cognitive heritage.

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