Why Give Your Memory to a Machine?

We are relying more and more on the Internet for our ability to recall. Search engines are replacing the way we were supposed to use our brains and eroding our ability to visual and restore thoughts.

Columbia University researchers have shown that people are more likely to remember things that they can’t easily find online. It appears that the internet is flattening the world and eroding our hippocampus.

I believe that you have to visualize an item in order to be able to encode it and recall it. For instance, if you cannot conjure up an image of your mother, then she becomes just 6 letters on a blank page.

The point I’m making is that we are isolating our brains from the patterns that keep us whole. The Internet is isolating us socially and may be contributing to the incidence of dementia. Memory requires a visual template. So we must exercise our brains and continually replenish our memory bank in order to maintain a fulfilling life. See to it.