Brain Rot and Your IQ: What Science Actually Says About Screen Time, Social Media, and Intelligence

Henry David Thoreau coined “brain rot” in 1854 in Walden, writing about society’s preference for simple ideas over complex thought. The complaint maps remarkably well onto algorithmic content feeds 170 years later.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/brain-rot-and-your-iq

#brainrot #iqscore #science #socialmedia #screentime #brain #society #adhd #health #tiktok #neuroscientist #pisa #student #digitaldetox #iqtest

Is Gen Z Getting Dumber? What the IQ Data Actually Shows About the First Generation to Score Lower Than Their Parents

The Gen Z IQ story is not a story about a broken generation. It is a story about what happens when environments change faster than our understanding of what those environments are doing to cognition.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/is-gen-z-getting-dumber

#genz #dumb #dumber #generation #iqscore #neuroscientist #health #science #data #flynneffect #brain #brainrot #medical #research #adult

This is likely the most influential interview (30m) that you will hear in your life.
Alex is a #physics and #neuroscientist professor.
As far from #woowoo as you can get...

He rationally critiques the ossified #materialistic #science and offers an opportunity for humans to expand its myopic and destructive obsession with a very narrow perspectives if the hard problem of #consciousness

He touches on #AI and the toxic ideology of #broligarchy , #transhumanism

#alexgomezmartin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OHF4mJvKY

Why consciousness might continue after death | Àlex Gómez-Marín

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James H. Fallon - Wikipedia

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James H. Fallon - Wikipedia
James H. Fallon - Wikipedia

Digging into this a bit more just led me to read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... #JamesHFallon (October 18, 1947 – November 20, 2023) was an American #neuroscientist

James H. Fallon - Wikipedia
James H. Fallon - Wikipedia

#neuroscientist #richarddavidson put buddhist monks and student volunteers in a #mri machine and played recording of people in dstress the monks with long #meditation practice generated feeling of compassion
How to fall asleep fast according to a neuroscientist

There's an easy way to trick your brain into calming down.

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