Software on the Brain
Steven Johnson,
Release 1.0,
Feb 18, 2004
I'm not going to recommend the report itself, since you have to pay money for it, but you should read this summary, as it touches on themes I've tried to explore in these pages. Significantly, "For 40 years we've been untangling Marshall McLuhan's insight that our media are just extensions of our central nervous system, but we have spent most of that time focused on the extensions and ignoring the nervous system itself." And "memory is no longer seen as a simple problem of storage and retrieval: Emotional states play a significant role in how memories are captured and when they are recalled."
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