I read a book every night, on my tablet currently. All of my hard copies & paperbacks are packed away. We just moved because my husband retired October 1st 2018. I sit and watch outside my big bay window for wildlife that wanders through the yard, photographing some, crochet things, My next big goals are to bring chicken back to the family ranch and a garden too. There hasn't been either one here since Grandma Jessi became unable to manage hers. I would also love to quilt too, Grandma Jessi made beautiful quilts!
It first end when you die. And a second time when other people who remembers or see your written history, and keep's mimic your past and past you. In theory it could last until the universe end. If it even do end that is? Personally I think an end do not exist really. In some way history will always be history and the future is just something we cant see before its there, and then its just history. The fact is, our lives is just going in one direction, and that's why we feel compelled to say something has ended. But say we could download our minds into a virtual reality, then where does it really end, and begin ? When forever is an option.
I'm using eye drops that require me to stay with my eyes closed for a minute multiple times a day. It's awesome how intense that change of pace feels in respect to the rest of the day
While technology does help relieve a lot of the tasks that would busy our brains, I do think there is a huge negative a long with it. Creativity, one of the key aspects our lives relies a lot on prior skill and knowledge. Most creative works occur between the mastery and novice stages however if we can outsource most of our knowledge and information that might very well limit our creativity. Yes we can google random facts about quantum physics, the krebs cycle, or a video on how technology is interacting with our attention and psychology (albeit a cool video that's part of a great series). However the way our brain encodes and accesses information through association and later uses it for creative tasks isn't something that can be easily supplemented with technology. And what if we do develop algorithms that do just that, outsource our creativity? Would that make things better or worse? Life would be pretty mundane and I think it'd cause an issue come self actualization since for a lot of people that comes from creative expression. It is a pretty complicated topic and I'm no philosopher, but I do wonder what others think about it? Is all this technology degrading out creativity and might this become a big problem in the future (if it isn't already)?
I've always enjoyed making things, but about five years ago an illness left me disabled. I still love making things but I don't have the same physical abilities, so no I use tech to turn my ideas into reality. I learnt CAD software and with the aid of a cheap 3D printer, I still make things. With my computer I'm still able to make art with a graphics tablet. So rather than limiting my creativity it's made it more accessible.
Somali pirate who's actually somali It was both a joke and a form of an OK argument, that argument being that since we'll have smartphones with us everyday we should use them in tests to reflect our actual everyday abilities. I chose to respond to the argument aspect not the joke cause i didn't have anything to say about the joke.
So I've been thinking about this a bit lately: Boredom is great for your brain. Is meditation "just", let's call it, "planned boredom"? Or would that not count as, if you will, "boredom time"?
@@braincraft My Mother is a Psychologist {works at Erina, New South Wales}. I guess this new world of technology *COULD* make us lazier ⁉️ Potentially conditioning the world to not develop any more geniuses, And from the point of Hollywood Movies make it impossible for us to escape detection from the *CIA* 😄. I guess though, Where then are the C.I.A going to get employees who are a genius to work for them to catch smart-alacks like me who support Senator Sarah Hanson-Young & could maybe like to embarrass world leaders in the search for truth. 🤔 🧞♂️🤷♀️ 🚔ℹ📲🎥
Aren't you forgetting that if Google takes over the responsibility of doing 28% of the tasks our brain used to do by itself, then we are free to devote that 28% to something else? With Google maps, I can spend less time looking at a map & spend more time looking at the road & be a safer driver....
Nice video, made me think that easy access to entertainment now pretty much enables us to just keep coasting, and perhaps inhibit our potential for growth in life.
I disagree with the extended mind thesis. The tools are just providing increased access to information. We still operate with the same processes inside our skulls, just with fancier tools on the outside.
Parker K. That’s just a matter of bandwidth though. If your tools like your smart phone - allowed for a direct connection with your mind; you’re no longer limited to the speed of a two thumb interaction. So if that were to happen would you not agree they are a literal extension of our mind? When we use tools we don’t operate with the same processes inside our own minds because we’ve offloaded that mental energy into what ever computative tool we’re using.
If it was purely access to information you would be correct, but it also works as behavioral management regarding notifications, social networks, and the ease of methods of doing things (for instance, accessing information). It’s not so much the availability of information, but the delivery (which is only one context anyway).
Human Here Okay, I can see that. I just don’t feel like we’re to that point with our current technology. Google maps is high tech, but still ultimately a map we use with the same processes we would use with a paper map.
Parker K. Do you, though? With a normal map, you make your own route, you’re not aware of traffic at specific points of the day from the map alone, etc, but all you have to do with Google is put in a destination and tell it to navigate. It picks the route for you based on those factors, therefore you literally are not using your cognitive processes for those things. Google maps is actually a great example, considering finding an appropriate route used to be more of an art form than an exact science.
Similar arguments happened when the printed word meant knowledge and literature could be made available to the mass population and more people learnt to read. It was feared that books would change people's brains and attitudes. In reality it just meant that more people had better access to information. The same happened again when radio became a consumer service. Again with TV. Tech is no different. It's a source of information and entertainment. How we as humans choose to use it is what matters. If we choose to use it to empower or enhance our abilities, then great. If we choose to surrender our free will to it, then that's your own fault. So what if Google co-ordinates my day? It doesn't mean I have to slavishly follow it's instructions. It's like following a satnav direction into a river, because it said there was a road there. (Don't laugh, it happened quite a few times back when satnav was new).
I haven't read a book for fun in years. However, a part of what draws us to social media in my opinion is that people are also very mentally busy. I was doing my degree and working, now I'm learning a difficult language 5 times a week and working. That's outside of just home maintenance and having relationships. My brain is tired, and quality books do require mental energy for me, as well as any other hobby. I don't want to read just for the sake of reading, so it's not a priority right now. Generally, if people have to work harder to survive, social media is just easier on our fatigued brains.
By having the phone store your contact info. By letting maps store directions and having an assistant for your agenda makes a person specialize more in a focused field rather than diverting attention to other stuff.
This was a big part of my PhD dissertation research. I found through a lot of work that McLuhan's adage about the medium being the message works on multiple levels. Nietzsche wrote about how his writing philosophy on a typewriter changed his thought processes, and we've seen drastic cultural changes to the pace of the day, sleep, concepts of time and space shift with new technologies, especially communication technology which this definitely fits under. I want to add though that I don't see these as value positive or negative. Humans have always been very plastic, and I'd argue our interactions are emergent phenomenon borne from the technologies we have in our world rather than a thing we drive.
"does technology change your brain? Well, anything changes your brain" Finally! Someone that presents that fact in the right context! So many people portray it as a scary fact. I am really glad that you don't.
What's makes things worse is that these algorithems used to better, such as UA-cam, but now they only focus on keeping people stay longer so more focus on quantity instead of quality
Loving this series Vanessa! Your work is endlessly inspiring! Thinking about the amount of time and effort that must go into making content with such high production value blows my mind.
My decisions have never been entirely up to me. For example, in high school I would have taken a class that included graph theory if it been offered, but it wasn't. My decisions have always been influenced, and in some cases dictated, by my parents, school, friends, etc. Google et al have less of an influence on me than some other external factors.
Isn't picking up a book, also only a act of distraction from boredom, that'll effect you long-term memory just as google does on any given subject? And i doubt very much that people can read a 40 parts long twitter post, but not a book.
I wasn't interested in this title but finally watched it after UA-cam suggested it about a dozen times. I'm glad I did but found humor in the situation. Excellent video, thank you.
i made a comment on the first video in this series. shortly after that om Thanksgiving i had my latest smart phone stolen. I am still paying on two phones this year that are broken adding up to $1000. So i am going to not get another smart phone for now. or until i can find a tough phone. i am without a smart phone since Thanksgiving. and it only takes a week to realize that you dont need one! i was not a person that let my phone think for me . But i have noticed people are upset with me since i have not gotten another phone. this is odd and scary at the sane time. i use my laptop to look at a map when i went to a place for the first time. but i forgot to write notes to get there. i took 10 min to get someone of there phone to look the address up for me. in the past i would have just looked on the map i always had in my car! but 5 people took the time to see what i wanted then tell me they were busy on their phone. that was strange. finally i got the cashier at 7/11 who took 20 seconds to check and show me the map to find where i had to go. i didnt ask him for directions just a map since i new i was close and i try to still keep the knowledge of how to read a map as something i dont let my phone do even when i had one. love the seires. and this channel .. thanks
I do need to read a book! It's so enjoyable... but before starting reading you can't forget to take a look to all social media accounts or else maybe you may miss something important... and after that extremely important task the reading time is gone and someone won the attention wars and you didn't even notice! =)
I do use many parts of Google, but I don't use any form of digital assistant. My primary mail is my own domain, I don't use Gmail for personal stuff, mostly Ingress and the automatic "social" posts. I also know where I'm going before I set off and only use Google Navigation for fine tuning. Digital assistants can't handle shift work anyway, and they certainly miss the mark with their recommendations 😂 I've been coding computers since 1979. First at school and as an occasional hobby since. I tell computers what to do, not the other way around. I do use the many tools available but as I want to, not how they want me to. Being without a connected device would be inconvenient, but I could survive (easily) without. Not sure about the infrastructure society has come to rely on, but it's pretty recent and I still clearly remember life without. Great series, mind provoking and I'll keep commenting on each one :D I think I'll make a playlist when the series is complete then share it to make others think.
I'm sure people had these discussions and worries when the printed word became widely available. I don't think of the AI in my tech as being insidious on behalf of companies, it's just a different way to advertise. When shopping I rarely react to ads and buy the products that fill my tech's ad space, I use my tech to search for the thing I'm shopping for. Be it the best price, the speed of delivery or the best version of a product. I'm aware that the search engines could skew results in favour of sponsored products, but I'm also aware that search engines only thrive when users can trust their results. Once the public learn that a search engine manipulates it's results, the trust is gone and they will switch to the competition's search engines. So whilst I use tech with AI that suggest locations and products I don't rely on it. It's advice at best and ads at it's worst.
This is one of the best youtuber series I've ever seen and it teaches me a lot about how I live my life and what I should probably change! :) Thank you for creating this series!
I look at it as an extension of my brain, not as a replacement for any of it. There is just too much information out there to remember all of the minutiae, so instead I focus on learning the general principles and where more information on various subjects can be found, then when I do need to know the details I use these tools to pull it up. That frees my mind to handle more high-level thinking.
Brilliant! Thank you for the video now to go back and catch up on the beginning of the series! And as a completely 'social-cooperative-species': "WE SHARE" this sharing/cooperation is the touchstone of what it means to be a member of the human species. It's not like we choose to be this we are designed by natural selection to be this way. When we see the timeline of: [1] -> [2] -> [3] [1] language -> writing -> [2] remote-reading-listening-seeing (books + newspapers + radio + movies + tv + web) -> [3] remote interactive of all the previous things (THE NET) Then we arrive at NOW But - For Me - Nah - NOT 28% but more like 50% .... and ... the other 50% (owned by Wikipedia)
I don't think people using outdated technology (books) makes any difference, over saturation is one thing but your allowed to read as many books as you like, its just an ineffective way to take it in when you can get visual and audio at the same time.
Think about it: you ask a stranger where to find something. They use their smart phone, and help you with answers totally fitting their personality bias, like dislikes et cetra.
At around 6 minutes, it sounds like you're implying that books are somehow "better" than other kinds of media, like video (Netflix or UA-cam). I think you might be biased there, maybe because you personally prefer books, or because you associate them with better information, or something like that.
I think it's worth pointing out that even though mental tasks we offload onto machines diminishes the skills that we offload to them, our brains are very plastic, where we can enhance other skills.
It always feels a bit ironic when I'm learning these things about social media and technology's effects on the brain through watching UA-cam videos. I didn't dislike the video - I found it very engaging and informative - but I just thought I should put that out there.
It is interesting, so we should be more careful to protect our attention and what to put in the extended brain (a collective consciousness that includes Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, AI, etc.)
A few month ago I bought myself a first smartphone (used to use old Nokia for years), and I hoped that this way Google technologies would be able to actually influence my life, make it easier. Maybe I would've created my daily regime and started to follow it. Or started to receive tips based on my interests... But alas, I live in Russia, and Google here doesn't work the same way. Here, it's nothing more than a search engine( Or, maybe, I'm just too old for all that fancy AI-supported lifestyle. Cos' I'm 21 already and I still find C more fascinating than Java)
Love the videos... the important thing in my opinion is to allow our brains to be stimulated and rest enough... tech has huge benefits, but for profit mentality makes it designed to be addictive.
Yup, it has all my passwords... Unfortunately when I forget my google account password: I have to reset it and then google keeps hold of it. Google somehow reset all my passwords so now I must go back and restore ALL my passwords. Learn from my mistake: Do NOT rely on anything other than pen and paper for your passwords!
I think with my brain, and confirm/conflict with Google. I still keep my own calendar without Google, and do most everything manually, with a techno backup. Yeah, I prefer life in “manual.”
I watch a huge amount of UA-cam, most of it educational videos, but I don't think it's reducing my attention span; I frequently watch, and pay attention to, 30 min+ mini documentaries on here just for fun and I'm sure I've learnt a lot from UA-cam that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. I also must have read a few thousand pages worth of books in 2018 alone, so I don't see it killing reading.
Ha! I often feel the same way, and a few days a week I'll intentionally navigate to a new spot without any digital assistance. Just checking that hippocampus is still working, I suppose?
We shall be as gods, and about ourselves we shall know all things. Technology will banish forgetting, and the stores of undeformed memory will live forever in the cloud, retrievable at will. The name for our remaining problems will be “search”: all we’ll have to do is remember what we’re looking for, master a few tricks for finding it, and, finally, offload the initiation of search onto external prompts that will remind us to remember.
If the mind begins in the brain, where exactly does it end?
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(And, for the record, that was a *dramatised* morning routine 🙃)
I read a book every night, on my tablet currently. All of my hard copies & paperbacks are packed away. We just moved because my husband retired October 1st 2018.
I sit and watch outside my big bay window for wildlife that wanders through the yard, photographing some, crochet things, My next big goals are to bring chicken back to the family ranch and a garden too. There hasn't been either one here since Grandma Jessi became unable to manage hers. I would also love to quilt too, Grandma Jessi made beautiful quilts!
The stomach (organic CPU)?
It ends when you...die?
It first end when you die. And a second time when other people who remembers or see your written history, and keep's mimic your past and past you. In theory it could last until the universe end. If it even do end that is? Personally I think an end do not exist really. In some way history will always be history and the future is just something we cant see before its there, and then its just history. The fact is, our lives is just going in one direction, and that's why we feel compelled to say something has ended. But say we could download our minds into a virtual reality, then where does it really end, and begin ? When forever is an option.
Hey , what's the intro tune/music called?
People always say my head is in the clouds, but that's just because I outsourced my brain to cloud computing.
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You are knocking it out of the park with this series, very interesting and thought provoking.
I'm using eye drops that require me to stay with my eyes closed for a minute multiple times a day. It's awesome how intense that change of pace feels in respect to the rest of the day
You're just a few pinches away from being a cup of tea.
@@massimookissed1023 i already am
"Will the machine serve man or will man serve the machine?" Joseph Campbell Godfather of Star Wars
Rest 72% is owned by memes
Ermahgerd it's true 😰
Memes can have my 100%
While technology does help relieve a lot of the tasks that would busy our brains, I do think there is a huge negative a long with it. Creativity, one of the key aspects our lives relies a lot on prior skill and knowledge. Most creative works occur between the mastery and novice stages however if we can outsource most of our knowledge and information that might very well limit our creativity. Yes we can google random facts about quantum physics, the krebs cycle, or a video on how technology is interacting with our attention and psychology (albeit a cool video that's part of a great series). However the way our brain encodes and accesses information through association and later uses it for creative tasks isn't something that can be easily supplemented with technology. And what if we do develop algorithms that do just that, outsource our creativity? Would that make things better or worse? Life would be pretty mundane and I think it'd cause an issue come self actualization since for a lot of people that comes from creative expression.
It is a pretty complicated topic and I'm no philosopher, but I do wonder what others think about it? Is all this technology degrading out creativity and might this become a big problem in the future (if it isn't already)?
I've always enjoyed making things, but about five years ago an illness left me disabled. I still love making things but I don't have the same physical abilities, so no I use tech to turn my ideas into reality. I learnt CAD software and with the aid of a cheap 3D printer, I still make things. With my computer I'm still able to make art with a graphics tablet. So rather than limiting my creativity it's made it more accessible.
So does that mean I can bring my smartphone into exams now?
Exams are to prove the meaty part of your mind, not what technology you own, it's a lot easier to prove what technology you own
Somali pirate who's actually somali
It was both a joke and a form of an OK argument, that argument being that since we'll have smartphones with us everyday we should use them in tests to reflect our actual everyday abilities.
I chose to respond to the argument aspect not the joke cause i didn't have anything to say about the joke.
@Somali pirate who's actually somali Right. It was 100% a joke haha.
So I've been thinking about this a bit lately:
Boredom is great for your brain.
Is meditation "just", let's call it, "planned boredom"? Or would that not count as, if you will, "boredom time"?
I like braincraft videos. Psychology is really interesting.
I think so too!!
@@braincraft My Mother is a Psychologist {works at Erina, New South Wales}. I guess this new world of technology *COULD* make us lazier ⁉️ Potentially conditioning the world to not develop any more geniuses, And from the point of Hollywood Movies make it impossible for us to escape detection from the *CIA* 😄. I guess though, Where then are the C.I.A going to get employees who are a genius to work for them to catch smart-alacks like me who support Senator Sarah Hanson-Young & could maybe like to embarrass world leaders in the search for truth. 🤔 🧞♂️🤷♀️ 🚔ℹ📲🎥
Wow! I think these videos are amazingly hosted/produced/filmed/written/etc. Great job Vanessa and team!!!
Aren't you forgetting that if Google takes over the responsibility of doing 28% of the tasks our brain used to do by itself, then we are free to devote that 28% to something else? With Google maps, I can spend less time looking at a map & spend more time looking at the road & be a safer driver....
Thats why we're getting dumber. The machines are making us dumb.
Nice video, made me think that easy access to entertainment now pretty much enables us to just keep coasting, and perhaps inhibit our potential for growth in life.
I disagree with the extended mind thesis. The tools are just providing increased access to information. We still operate with the same processes inside our skulls, just with fancier tools on the outside.
Parker K. That’s just a matter of bandwidth though. If your tools like your smart phone - allowed for a direct connection with your mind; you’re no longer limited to the speed of a two thumb interaction. So if that were to happen would you not agree they are a literal extension of our mind?
When we use tools we don’t operate with the same processes inside our own minds because we’ve offloaded that mental energy into what ever computative tool we’re using.
If it was purely access to information you would be correct, but it also works as behavioral management regarding notifications, social networks, and the ease of methods of doing things (for instance, accessing information). It’s not so much the availability of information, but the delivery (which is only one context anyway).
Human Here Okay, I can see that. I just don’t feel like we’re to that point with our current technology. Google maps is high tech, but still ultimately a map we use with the same processes we would use with a paper map.
Parker K. Do you, though? With a normal map, you make your own route, you’re not aware of traffic at specific points of the day from the map alone, etc, but all you have to do with Google is put in a destination and tell it to navigate. It picks the route for you based on those factors, therefore you literally are not using your cognitive processes for those things. Google maps is actually a great example, considering finding an appropriate route used to be more of an art form than an exact science.
Similar arguments happened when the printed word meant knowledge and literature could be made available to the mass population and more people learnt to read. It was feared that books would change people's brains and attitudes. In reality it just meant that more people had better access to information.
The same happened again when radio became a consumer service.
Again with TV.
Tech is no different. It's a source of information and entertainment. How we as humans choose to use it is what matters. If we choose to use it to empower or enhance our abilities, then great. If we choose to surrender our free will to it, then that's your own fault.
So what if Google co-ordinates my day? It doesn't mean I have to slavishly follow it's instructions. It's like following a satnav direction into a river, because it said there was a road there. (Don't laugh, it happened quite a few times back when satnav was new).
I haven't read a book for fun in years. However, a part of what draws us to social media in my opinion is that people are also very mentally busy. I was doing my degree and working, now I'm learning a difficult language 5 times a week and working. That's outside of just home maintenance and having relationships. My brain is tired, and quality books do require mental energy for me, as well as any other hobby. I don't want to read just for the sake of reading, so it's not a priority right now. Generally, if people have to work harder to survive, social media is just easier on our fatigued brains.
By having the phone store your contact info. By letting maps store directions and having an assistant for your agenda makes a person specialize more in a focused field rather than diverting attention to other stuff.
This was a big part of my PhD dissertation research. I found through a lot of work that McLuhan's adage about the medium being the message works on multiple levels. Nietzsche wrote about how his writing philosophy on a typewriter changed his thought processes, and we've seen drastic cultural changes to the pace of the day, sleep, concepts of time and space shift with new technologies, especially communication technology which this definitely fits under.
I want to add though that I don't see these as value positive or negative. Humans have always been very plastic, and I'd argue our interactions are emergent phenomenon borne from the technologies we have in our world rather than a thing we drive.
"does technology change your brain? Well, anything changes your brain"
Finally! Someone that presents that fact in the right context! So many people portray it as a scary fact. I am really glad that you don't.
What's makes things worse is that these algorithems used to better, such as UA-cam, but now they only focus on keeping people stay longer so more focus on quantity instead of quality
Loving this series Vanessa! Your work is endlessly inspiring! Thinking about the amount of time and effort that must go into making content with such high production value blows my mind.
My decisions have never been entirely up to me. For example, in high school I would have taken a class that included graph theory if it been offered, but it wasn't. My decisions have always been influenced, and in some cases dictated, by my parents, school, friends, etc. Google et al have less of an influence on me than some other external factors.
Isn't picking up a book, also only a act of distraction from boredom, that'll effect you long-term memory just as google does on any given subject? And i doubt very much that people can read a 40 parts long twitter post, but not a book.
I wasn't interested in this title but finally watched it after UA-cam suggested it about a dozen times. I'm glad I did but found humor in the situation. Excellent video, thank you.
I love this series! But so far I have watched the episodes right away :P
No worries if that works for you! Just be careful you're not falling down a UA-cam rabbit hole :)
I strongly disagree but eh whatever...
I totally love this series
i made a comment on the first video in this series. shortly after that om Thanksgiving i had my latest smart phone stolen. I am still paying on two phones this year that are broken adding up to $1000. So i am going to not get another smart phone for now. or until i can find a tough phone. i am without a smart phone since Thanksgiving. and it only takes a week to realize that you dont need one! i was not a person that let my phone think for me . But i have noticed people are upset with me since i have not gotten another phone. this is odd and scary at the sane time. i use my laptop to look at a map when i went to a place for the first time. but i forgot to write notes to get there. i took 10 min to get someone of there phone to look the address up for me. in the past i would have just looked on the map i always had in my car! but 5 people took the time to see what i wanted then tell me they were busy on their phone. that was strange. finally i got the cashier at 7/11 who took 20 seconds to check and show me the map to find where i had to go. i didnt ask him for directions just a map since i new i was close and i try to still keep the knowledge of how to read a map as something i dont let my phone do even when i had one. love the seires. and this channel .. thanks
great video! greetings from Sicily!
Thanks Giuseppe!
@@braincraft you're welcome! let's connect on facebook if you like ;) I'm an italian painter and photographer, I love your channel
Memes own 100% of my brains.
I wake up with a thanos meme and go to sleep with a surgery grape meme.
I do need to read a book! It's so enjoyable... but before starting reading you can't forget to take a look to all social media accounts or else maybe you may miss something important... and after that extremely important task the reading time is gone and someone won the attention wars and you didn't even notice! =)
I do use many parts of Google, but I don't use any form of digital assistant. My primary mail is my own domain, I don't use Gmail for personal stuff, mostly Ingress and the automatic "social" posts. I also know where I'm going before I set off and only use Google Navigation for fine tuning. Digital assistants can't handle shift work anyway, and they certainly miss the mark with their recommendations 😂
I've been coding computers since 1979. First at school and as an occasional hobby since. I tell computers what to do, not the other way around. I do use the many tools available but as I want to, not how they want me to. Being without a connected device would be inconvenient, but I could survive (easily) without. Not sure about the infrastructure society has come to rely on, but it's pretty recent and I still clearly remember life without.
Great series, mind provoking and I'll keep commenting on each one :D
I think I'll make a playlist when the series is complete then share it to make others think.
Is this the last in the series? And is there a playlist I can share? This is spot on. I love it.
2 more parts.
I once got Rick Rolled in a dream. That was the first sign I needed to unplug...
This all assumes we have free will to begin with.
I'm sure people had these discussions and worries when the printed word became widely available. I don't think of the AI in my tech as being insidious on behalf of companies, it's just a different way to advertise. When shopping I rarely react to ads and buy the products that fill my tech's ad space, I use my tech to search for the thing I'm shopping for. Be it the best price, the speed of delivery or the best version of a product.
I'm aware that the search engines could skew results in favour of sponsored products, but I'm also aware that search engines only thrive when users can trust their results. Once the public learn that a search engine manipulates it's results, the trust is gone and they will switch to the competition's search engines. So whilst I use tech with AI that suggest locations and products I don't rely on it. It's advice at best and ads at it's worst.
This is one of the best youtuber series I've ever seen and it teaches me a lot about how I live my life and what I should probably change! :) Thank you for creating this series!
Having a conversation with other humans amounts to an extended mind too...
I prefer to think that Google ads 28% to my brain.
Google owns a Google employee's 50% of his brain lol
I look at it as an extension of my brain, not as a replacement for any of it. There is just too much information out there to remember all of the minutiae, so instead I focus on learning the general principles and where more information on various subjects can be found, then when I do need to know the details I use these tools to pull it up. That frees my mind to handle more high-level thinking.
bahaha when you said "hey google" it activated by google home mini and it started talking :')
Bravo Vanessa, awesome video! Off to read a book!
Thanks Nikolay! Enjoy :)
I came here for psychology not to ask myself philosophical questions about my existense and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now
not technically owned, but they have licensed some of it for sure
Ha!
I had to pause this video in the middle because my watch told me I didn't have enough steps for the hour. I'll be back right after a short walk.
I’m glad they didn’t stretch that ten minute mark just for ad revenue.
Brilliant!
Thank you for the video now to go back and catch up on the beginning of the series!
And as a completely 'social-cooperative-species': "WE SHARE" this sharing/cooperation is the touchstone of what it means to be a member of the human species.
It's not like we choose to be this we are designed by natural selection to be this way.
When we see the timeline of: [1] -> [2] -> [3]
[1] language -> writing ->
[2] remote-reading-listening-seeing (books + newspapers + radio + movies + tv + web) ->
[3] remote interactive of all the previous things (THE NET)
Then we arrive at NOW
But - For Me - Nah - NOT 28% but more like 50% .... and ... the other 50% (owned by Wikipedia)
Your upload schedule syncs perfectly with my youtube watching schedule.
I have been knitting while watching this series so 8:30 definitely got my attention.
Really cool to see Chalmers in your video
I don't think people using outdated technology (books) makes any difference, over saturation is one thing but your allowed to read as many books as you like, its just an ineffective way to take it in when you can get visual and audio at the same time.
Can you recommend some psychology books?
You know what'll be amazing? A Vsauce and a BrainCraft colaboration!
"That's pure-bred human. No vampire in there."
7:30 i need those glasses
Think about it: you ask a stranger where to find something. They use their smart phone, and help you with answers totally fitting their personality bias, like dislikes et cetra.
Great video! Interesting stuff!!
I'm missing the novelty of having no television while having no television, :(
At around 6 minutes, it sounds like you're implying that books are somehow "better" than other kinds of media, like video (Netflix or UA-cam).
I think you might be biased there, maybe because you personally prefer books, or because you associate them with better information, or something like that.
BrainCraft is making the Internet a better place.
Actully, Now I'm addicted to these videos. :P Thank You for Internet Parenting.
5:19 You can't trick me, that is not a real typewriter. It is just a themed keyboard with rattley Cherry MX Blue switches/
I think it's worth pointing out that even though mental tasks we offload onto machines diminishes the skills that we offload to them, our brains are very plastic, where we can enhance other skills.
It always feels a bit ironic when I'm learning these things about social media and technology's effects on the brain through watching UA-cam videos. I didn't dislike the video - I found it very engaging and informative - but I just thought I should put that out there.
_UA-cam_ prevents me from being bored.
This makes me quit technology altogether, too bad my work requires a laptop.
0:59 extremely uncanny 😮😱
I usually get disconnected when I go to lunch (and supper), it takes about an hour of no internet for me, two times a day.
Genevieve Bell: What does boredom look like in a brain that’s been under stimulated since birth?
The same was probably said about the printing press and mass produced books.
*stares in Apple*
I don’t have this problem.
It is interesting, so we should be more careful to protect our attention and what to put in the extended brain (a collective consciousness that includes Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, AI, etc.)
Please cite the research papers you've referred to
A few month ago I bought myself a first smartphone (used to use old Nokia for years), and I hoped that this way Google technologies would be able to actually influence my life, make it easier. Maybe I would've created my daily regime and started to follow it. Or started to receive tips based on my interests...
But alas, I live in Russia, and Google here doesn't work the same way. Here, it's nothing more than a search engine(
Or, maybe, I'm just too old for all that fancy AI-supported lifestyle. Cos' I'm 21 already and I still find C more fascinating than Java)
Love the videos... the important thing in my opinion is to allow our brains to be stimulated and rest enough... tech has huge benefits, but for profit mentality makes it designed to be addictive.
I’m an iOS guy
You have a youtube channel jesus. Your face is now owned by google.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR RELIGION. YOU ARE SUPPORRTING A DEMON.
REEEEEEEEEEEE
Same
Apple owns you my son.
Amen
Apple owns your soul.
Yup, it has all my passwords... Unfortunately when I forget my google account password: I have to reset it and then google keeps hold of it.
Google somehow reset all my passwords so now I must go back and restore ALL my passwords. Learn from my mistake: Do NOT rely on anything other than pen and paper for your passwords!
I think with my brain, and confirm/conflict with Google. I still keep my own calendar without Google, and do most everything manually, with a techno backup. Yeah, I prefer life in “manual.”
i love your videos they are just great
Thanks Haji!
This video is the first pro-Article 13 argument I've ever heard.
love this channel.
Thanks for watching!
I'm at 0:44 and I'm gonna stop you right there @BrainCraft: Nobody lives like that. Nobody except you.
Ha it was definitely dramatised for the story 😉 I bet someone lives like that!
8:28
The correct way to say this word is OO-koo-LE-le.. It means Jumping flea in Hawaiian
love your videos!
Lol Casio organizer, yaay
I don't know why but this video reminded me of a Tim and Eric sketch starring Paul Rudd "Celery Man"
I watch a huge amount of UA-cam, most of it educational videos, but I don't think it's reducing my attention span; I frequently watch, and pay attention to, 30 min+ mini documentaries on here just for fun and I'm sure I've learnt a lot from UA-cam that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. I also must have read a few thousand pages worth of books in 2018 alone, so I don't see it killing reading.
Sat-Nav has taken over 100% of my Hippocampus! :)
Ha! I often feel the same way, and a few days a week I'll intentionally navigate to a new spot without any digital assistance. Just checking that hippocampus is still working, I suppose?
Becoming one with wires this sensational! Augment and optimize!
28% cyber. That is awesome.
7:13 , who else saw a boxing glove
0:59 yooo is this a Community reference? 😁
The videos in this series are messages within the simulation, from outside the simulation, warning us of the simulation.
Would you call it over-simulation?
@BrainCraft I would! But I'm a dad, of course. I have to give the audience what they expect.
Haha 1:00 Mrs Max Headroom.
They don't own 28% of my brain more like 17%, I only use google for a few things
what if i'm stuck in the 2000s and literally don't know how to use algorithms?
Sidenote:
This ain't about alphabet.
Nor, is it about the devices maker.
This is much bigger.
I prefer the Google ecosystem and their algorithms(to a point on that one) because it is very effective and efficient.
Yeah, I think the mass adoption of their services is a testament to exactly how effective and efficient they are.
We shall be as gods, and about ourselves we shall know all things. Technology will banish forgetting, and the stores of undeformed memory will live forever in the cloud, retrievable at will. The name for our remaining problems will be “search”: all we’ll have to do is remember what we’re looking for, master a few tricks for finding it, and, finally, offload the initiation of search onto external prompts that will remind us to remember.