The Death of Memory
I wonder if memory is dying. I study well for tests and school but, in my own personal life I keep remembering habits that I've long since fallen out of practise with. Is it AI? rotting our brains and stealing our intelligence - I'm sure that's part of it, I know it hurts us, it definitely doesn't help. Is it just screens? that blue light drilling into brains, coring out our attention spans. Is it just consumption? consumption, consumption, we're not making new neural pathways for all this, are we going so quickly, too fast that evolution is still racing to catch up? so the old stuff just falls out instead, because it's all getting crammed in the wrong way. Forgetful me. Is it just my problem or is it an epidemic silently spreading and we'll never know or never believe? As an infant, I had routine. I didn't need to remember things, I moved on instinct. Bed time at the same time every day. Morning routine, school routine, afternoon routine, evening rou...