On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:55 PM, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > For an article that starts with an example of cognitive bias, it is far > faar too long.
The husk around the kernel of truth is rather mighty, I agree. Technological progress has a history of promoting a dulling of the mind and body. When entire civilizations have been built around the automobile and the elevator it's perhaps difficult to insist on walking. Spending hours in the gym because my day is spent sitting behind a desk is unhealthy, but society has proceeded into this madness so far without questioning it seriously. The dulling of the mind is a still more alarming development. The most dangerous of this class of development are those at the mind-body junction: heart rate monitors, sleep monitors, mood monitors, menstrual trackers, pedometers... They are the lure of the world of devices to embrace the anomaly even deeper. The mind-body connection is integral to being human, we need to know our own body before we know what the markets are doing that day. Relying on devices to inform us dulls the brain to the body surprisingly quickly. We lose grasp of what it means to be human, and depression, anxiety and all manner of mental illnesses follow. The mind is stable when it is aware of the body, and this inner awareness is at a level beyond the intellect. No measuring device can reach this space yet.
