![]() ![]() Twitter postings will not turn your thoughts into bullet points and Twitter postings. I want Pinker to say much more here, which he could had he the space. Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain." Pinker writes this to state that constant Twittering will not shape the brain so much as Carr thinks it will, but will make the person into a more effective Twitterer. "The existence of neural plasticity does not mean the brain is a blob of clay pounded into shape by experience. I think Pinker has set up a straw man here. Pinker writes: "If electronic media were hazardous to intelligence, the quality of science would be plummeting." But I don't see Carr making that far-reaching of a claim. ![]() ![]() The person who does not wish to be criticized for what they say will end up saying nothing. Indeed, every work that strongly puts forth a truth claim that is wide-ranging will be and should subjected to critique. I am much-taken by Carr's book, but realize that there will be criticism. Harvard's Steven Pinker reviews Nicholas Carr's The Shallows here. ![]()
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