Nowadays we are using calculators, computers and many other types of machines which are relieving us from using our brains. Do you thinking that is reducing our ability to calculate, analyze and interpret?
Human beings have employed tools for several hundred thousand years. We evolved with, through and alongside technology. At present our lives are filled with machines waking us up, providing instant visual and audio information, expanding our working choices through vehicles or computers, allowing even greater access to information through internet. We are our machines.
Anamitra, I'd say, maybe the opposite effect. I remember, when I was taking physics in high school, my very un-quantitatively trained father made the same observation. But the truth is, how much time would we be wasting, doing trivial arithmetic operations, if we had to do arithmetic by hand?
Writing computer models, or analyzing experimental results with computers, expands greatly on what humans can do. Analytical skills, I'd argue, are not being taken up entirely on what is repetitive and simple.
Albert Manfredi
Dear Professor,
Thank you for your answer. You have raised a very vital point when you said that analytical skills are not being taken up entirely on what is repetitive and simple. You have redirected my thoughts in another direction.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Mauro Luisetto
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Human beings have employed tools for several hundred thousand years. We evolved with, through and alongside technology. At present our lives are filled with machines waking us up, providing instant visual and audio information, expanding our working choices through vehicles or computers, allowing even greater access to information through internet. We are our machines.
Stanley Wilkin
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your contribution. I totally agree with you. Today we are surrounded with machines and tools. That is helping us to gather more information. So machines are not reducing our mental abilities. But are they making us lazy? Is that laziness having an impact on us?
Thanks to you for taking this debate to a new level. You have sparked off a question which I have listed above.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
No, I think it is enhancing them (speaking of the human race). It is not so time-consuming to test a grand plan and build upon.
Karl Sipfle
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
I do not think so because technology is upgrading day by day and people are used to using these machines and getting more benefits
Md. Alauddin
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer. The answers provided by the researchers have broken the wrong notion that I was having.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
I don't think so dear Anamitra Roy ,
All tools & machines have accelerated our working speed. We do more works in a short time due to their contributions and our skills have been increased obviously.
Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer. I was having a wrong notion. I thought usage of too many machines is reducing our mental abilities. You have given me a great concept about this when you wrote that we have to learn many new skills to run these machines. And, obviously when we are learning those skills, we are certainly not reducing our mental abilities.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Terri Purvis
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer. I really enjoyed going through this. I like the way you talked about technology when you said that technology developed helps with a diagnosis on a faster timeline than just waiting for critical information.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Use of machines is enhancing our embodiment. Tools become a continuation of our mind and body. On the other hand this phenomenon causes us to lose some of our mental abilities, such as using the computers degrades our hand writing, and calculators certainly reduce the average mental calculation of out population. The problem about using tools and machines is in fact they can be easily manipulated for the use of popularism tendency of the current democratic systems.
Ali Riza Saral
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your answer. Its a great answer. I am very happy to see the angle from which you spoke.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Gaber El-Saber Batiha
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for your appreciation of the topic of the question.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
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