Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland
Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
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El alcohol como tecnología que permite disminuir la rigidez cognitiva del adulto.
The speaker suggests that as adults, we lose the creativity we had as children due to the maturation of the prefrontal cortex. They propose the idea of temporarily reversing this maturation to think like a four year old again. They mention the use of transcranial magnet stimulation as a way to achieve this, but highlight its limitations. The speaker then introduces alcohol as a more accessible and subtle technology that can achieve a similar effect by taking the prefrontal cortex offline, allowing adults to think more freely like children.
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