I’m reading Ray Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near‘. It’s an interesting book. Fascinating, even. It’s full of insight and explanations of some of the most important technological advances in human history – and some of its predictions may well come to pass in some form or another. The man, frankly, is amazing.
But I’m reading it [...]
Categories: Adaptation, Technology
I was particularly interested in a small article in the latest issue of New Scientist magazine, which outlined how the human brain understands tools as part of our physical body.
When we brush our teeth, for instance, the brain conceives of our limb being slightly longer, which is how we map the information about where the [...]
Categories: Adaptation
I bookmarked an article from New Scientist this week about how storytelling shaped our evolution, and the ways in which narrative is connected to our brain development.
Of course, the obvious thing to point out here is that the ways in which we tell stories, the form they take, the types of stories they are and [...]
Categories: Adaptation, Narrative