{"id":3556,"date":"2010-10-06T02:22:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2010-10-06T02:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T02:22:48","slug":"your-brain-and-the-internet-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Your Brain and the Internet, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This <strong>Mark McGuinness<\/strong> gentleman\u00a0is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lateralaction.com\/articles\/internet-brain\/\">the <strong>anti-Nick Carr<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8230;.Pick up just about any book on Buddhist meditation, and you&#8217;ll find a similar description. Texts often refer to the \u2018monkey mind&#8217; hopping from thought to thought like the branches of a tree. And considering they are all based on the 2,500-year-old teachings of the historical Buddha, it seems a little premature to blame the internet for our monkey minds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When Nicholas Carr writes &#8220;I&#8217;ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory&#8221;, it&#8217;s as though the internet were imposing some alien thought patterns on him. But all the internet is doing is exaggerating the <em>natural<\/em> tendency of the mind to keep skipping from thought to thought. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is unnatural is the habit of spending &#8220;hours strolling through long stretches of prose&#8221;. The internet may be changing our brain, but books changed it first.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This Mark McGuinness gentleman\u00a0is the anti-Nick Carr: &#8230;.Pick up just about any book on Buddhist meditation, and you&#8217;ll find a similar description. Texts often refer to the \u2018monkey mind&#8217; hopping from thought to thought like the branches of a tree. And considering they are all based on the 2,500-year-old teachings of the historical Buddha, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,133,487,24,134,78,336,436,445,13,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic","category-book","category-brain","category-cognition","category-computers","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-psychology","category-reading","category-theory","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}