This chapter explores the concept of human brain evolution in relation to literacy and technology. It discusses how literacy influences the brain and speculates on the potential of literacy to enhance human evolution. The chapter also examines the role of attention in human cognition and how technology can overcome evolutionary limitations.
Alice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect, a company dedicated to “
enhancing human intelligence by augmenting memory, perception, and synthesis utilizing AI.” Alice started her career in psychology and academia, obtaining a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Yale University. She joins the show to discuss how to become more creative, why she believes that nothing is true, how to boost evolution and MUCH more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Augmenting Human Creativity
- Collection Does Not Always Lead to Recollection
- Using re:collect to Connect Information
- How to Increase Your Creativity
- Different Phases of Creativity
- How AI Fits Into the Picture
- Harnessing Our Attention
- AGI & ASI
- Boosting Evolution
- re:collect’s First Order Effects
- Nothing is True
- Convergence, Divergence & Collective Intelligence
- re:collect in Seven Years’ Time
- From Academia to Entrepreneurship
- Alice as Empress of the World
- MORE!
Books Mentioned:
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
- The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything; by David Deutsch
- The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous; by Joseph Henrich