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Post by Balkaneros on Mar 15, 2013 19:16:41 GMT -5
...thread speaks for itself - please explain your answer.
Consider the following:
- Has the internet made us smarter or did it just give us the perception "that we are more intelligent"?
- Has the internet overtime, saved us time or made us lazier? - Has the internet changed our way of socially interacting positively or negatively?
Define "better" however you like - the main point is to compare [how life was - before and now].
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Mar 15, 2013 22:36:11 GMT -5
In terms of gathering information internet is something human kind has never encountered before I would say. Does (1) ability to quickly gather information makes one (2) more smarter and more intelligent is another question all together.
- "Has the internet made us smarter or did it just give us the perception "that we are more intelligent"?
I tend to believe that true intelligence is emotional intelligence. To me human being is only as successful as far as it has ability to relate and interact with other human beings. Therefore billionaire that is all alone to me is still failure. Internet due to its impersonal ways if anything handicaps this and certainly does not enhance it. Ability to quickly gather information over medium such as internet does not make one more intelligent, perhaps only more informed.
- Has the internet overtime, saved us time or made us lazier?
I has done both. It has saved us time but it has made us used to easily acquiring information that it has made us expectant of this and thus lazy. - Has the internet changed our way of socially interacting positively or negatively?
Kids who are spending too much time on internet will almost certainly have inability on some level to interact with other kids which in itself will not be corrected through some written information. Being well read would not solve something like this. Internet age if anything will produce more ignorant individualist adults (due to their relative isolation from peers). This will in turn make weaker human beings since they will be more individualistic and not to mention more ignorant due to inability to interact and relate with other human beings.
Define "better" however you like - the main point is to compare [how life was - before and now].
Better to me means better functional. Therefore I would never confuse something that is temporarily perceived as politically correct in the west for instance with something that is better. It is one thing what super-elite is pushing on general populace (due to some usually hidden reasons which always boil down to their benefit) through the disguise of so called political correctness and another all together another as far as what is more functional.
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Post by amateurs on Mar 16, 2013 18:17:41 GMT -5
" I tend to believe that true intelligence is emotional intelligence. To me human being is only as successful as far as it has ability to relate and interact with other human beings."
That's cute. So for all these years, you tried to convince us to act like Vulcans and ignore our emotions, our emotional state, whereas I tried to refer to you to different sections of evolutionary psychology that attempts to explain why we developed and selected emotions ... and after giving me the cold shoulder, you finally come clean and write something that makes sense?
Wow, how wonderful! An early birthday present for Anittas!
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Post by ZhosDiletanti on Mar 17, 2013 10:37:16 GMT -5
Yes, the internet has made life better.
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