Recently there was an article from Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making us Stupid?” and there was much debate and arguments about it, which I am sure it can be googled very easily 🙂
But the following article I found quite interesting. Especially about contemplative thought vs analytical thought. Â Here is an interesting snippet.
“…This starts me wondering about the difference between contemplative and analytic thought. The former is intransitive and experiential in its nature, is for itself; the latter is transitive, is goal directed. According to the logic of transitive thought, information is a means, its increments mainly building blocks toward some synthesis or explanation. In that thought-world it’s clearly desirable to have a powerful machine that can gather and sort material in order to isolate the needed facts. But in the other, the contemplative thought-world—where reflection is itself the end, a means of testing and refining the relation to the world, a way of pursuing connection toward more affectively satisfying kinds of illumination, or insight—information is nothing without its contexts. I come to think that contemplation and analysis are not merely two kinds of thinking: they are opposed kinds of thinking. Then I realize that the Internet and the novel are opposites as well….”
More about this here: [The Link]