Guess what, a new study investigated brain activity during hand- and typewriting, and they found what everybody knows: welcome to da Science™, reinventing itself, c. 2025
Not just brain connectivity, which has been well-known since before computers became a house-hold item. Rehab of stroke patients f.e. training fine motor control by writing, drawing, and such.
The tactile information via proprioception from the hands and the fingers, eye-hand co-ordination, spacial awareness (the paper must stay in place, how hard can you push the pencil, what's the writing surface, and so on) and most importantly - information processing.
Child reads and copies involves looking, reading, comprehending, re-formulating and condensing, writing while remembering grammar and spelling, and this creates a whole host of connections back and forth. Typing, especially being good at typing, also does this - if it is done on a typewriter precisely because of the amount of tactile reinforcement.
Tablet, touchscreen and computer keyboard does not, and touchscreens ahve the least tactile re-connection and reinforcement.
It is amazing there can even be debate on this.
How is an LLM/AI/neuralnet trained? By having it repeat the task until the supervisor is satisified it has learned the task. Every time it makes a mistake it is corrected either immediately or after finishing the task.
Exactly how the brain learns, and no-one - not even the typical teacher of today with her homeopathic approach to learning - questions or objects to that being how an AI learns.
But suggest to them that repetition and correction is how a child learns and they'lll go off like a schizo having a breakdown.
Eugh! Or EU-gh, maybe. This makes me so very angry. Tech can /aid/ us in doing things that we are evolutionary adapted for/developed to do anyway, that's all tech can do. It cannot replace human action - if it does, the human devolves since evolution does not keep unused or not needed system around.
And we are entering into the first-ever "doesn't need to be able to think"-generation reaching adulthood. At least it will be entertaining, if nothing else.
So does (learning to) play an instrument, e.g. piano, guitar, etc. Or languages.
As to your last paragraph, well, these people will eventually die out and the world will be a lot more sane thereafter; the time-period until then will be a rollercoaster, if nothing else.
I’m for sure going backwards in a delightful way …making a point of using more cash, sending letters and postcards, putting down the surveillance device aka phone as soon as in company etc etc
For what it’s worth it seems common sense to me that writing by hand promotes brain connectivity. Can’t back this up other than to say that the two experiences of 1. Typing 2. Hand writing are utterly different ..in experience.
Not just brain connectivity, which has been well-known since before computers became a house-hold item. Rehab of stroke patients f.e. training fine motor control by writing, drawing, and such.
The tactile information via proprioception from the hands and the fingers, eye-hand co-ordination, spacial awareness (the paper must stay in place, how hard can you push the pencil, what's the writing surface, and so on) and most importantly - information processing.
Child reads and copies involves looking, reading, comprehending, re-formulating and condensing, writing while remembering grammar and spelling, and this creates a whole host of connections back and forth. Typing, especially being good at typing, also does this - if it is done on a typewriter precisely because of the amount of tactile reinforcement.
Tablet, touchscreen and computer keyboard does not, and touchscreens ahve the least tactile re-connection and reinforcement.
It is amazing there can even be debate on this.
How is an LLM/AI/neuralnet trained? By having it repeat the task until the supervisor is satisified it has learned the task. Every time it makes a mistake it is corrected either immediately or after finishing the task.
Exactly how the brain learns, and no-one - not even the typical teacher of today with her homeopathic approach to learning - questions or objects to that being how an AI learns.
But suggest to them that repetition and correction is how a child learns and they'lll go off like a schizo having a breakdown.
Eugh! Or EU-gh, maybe. This makes me so very angry. Tech can /aid/ us in doing things that we are evolutionary adapted for/developed to do anyway, that's all tech can do. It cannot replace human action - if it does, the human devolves since evolution does not keep unused or not needed system around.
And we are entering into the first-ever "doesn't need to be able to think"-generation reaching adulthood. At least it will be entertaining, if nothing else.
So does (learning to) play an instrument, e.g. piano, guitar, etc. Or languages.
As to your last paragraph, well, these people will eventually die out and the world will be a lot more sane thereafter; the time-period until then will be a rollercoaster, if nothing else.
I’m for sure going backwards in a delightful way …making a point of using more cash, sending letters and postcards, putting down the surveillance device aka phone as soon as in company etc etc
So absolutely yes, let’s ride at dawn!
Exactly. Or, if you live on a farm in rural Norway, also before the sun rises ^-^
So much academic stuff .
For what it’s worth it seems common sense to me that writing by hand promotes brain connectivity. Can’t back this up other than to say that the two experiences of 1. Typing 2. Hand writing are utterly different ..in experience.
Exactly.
As to the content, well, same experts™, different smell, eh?
Amen .