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A RIVER OF BREATH
“Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.”Thanks for reading The Changing Brain!
Aug 8, 2024 • 
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Good Looking
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May 27, 2024 • 
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You Don't Say
We have looked at alphabets, manuscripts, printing, and coding, but we have not looked at the earliest and possibly the most important way we move…
Apr 26, 2024 • 
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AND WHAT WE LOSE
If you remember, we started this series with Julian Jaynes’s idea that writing led to suppression of the non-dominant, hallucinating hemisphere and the…
Nov 16, 2023 • 
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Learning New Things
“Barring some catastrophic planetary nightfall, the tech industry will create within decades, machines with human-level intelligence and behaviors…
Nov 7, 2023 • 
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THE NEW AGE OF FAITH
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson
Sep 6, 2023 • 
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Information Overload
Aug 24, 2023 • 
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Run On Sentences
Jun 27, 2023 • 
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The Changing Brain
The Changing Brain
How information transfer has driven evolution of the brain

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