Christine Rosen
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131 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Jun
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So I think we should value more face-to-face interaction, more civility in public life, like acknowledging the stranger when they walk into the elevator.
And these seem like small niceties, but they really matter in terms of our day-to-day lives and the ability to be civil to each other.
So
We have to choose it now.
It is an option never to do it that way.
And that is brand new.
So in some ways, I think we do adapt and we have adapted, but we can overcorrect towards technology and start to become a little too machine-like in our own way of behaving and thinking.
And I think sometimes we need to step back and say, what are the human things that we've lost in doing that?
They're missing the experience, first, of frustration.
If you haven't been writing in a while, you'll be shocked that you might not be able to read your own handwriting.
A lot of people have that experience.
But you're missing the process of embodied cognition, your mind and your body working together.
So I encourage people to just a couple times a day try to do something by hand, write by hand, use your body and your mind together in this way, because those experiences are things we have to seek out now.
Whatnot has been such a fun experience.
They've got great shows, great auctions, and just such a wide variety of pieces and different categories to shop from.
Thanks, Lynn. I'm very glad to be here.
We are, and this is a fairly new thing in that we have a choice about whether we can be with each other in physical presence, face-to-face, having those sorts of conversations, or doing the same thing but with a screen between us and another person. Given the convenience, the ease, the efficiency, our ability to maybe mute or turn off a conversation that we're not enjoying,
We're more and more often gravitating towards the mediated interaction with other people rather than the face to face. And I think over time, we develop habits and expectations of each other that are mediated through the technology. And that means when we are face to face and together in person again, we're not as good at what we used to do.
We've lost some of our skills and just interacting as human beings. Can you elaborate? What are we losing? One of the things that we're designed evolutionarily to do is to read each other's facial expressions. So we have all kinds of unspoken languages, as they say, with our gestures.
So the way we use our hands, if our eyebrows go up and from the very moment that you open your eyes and in fact, an infant's field of vision is when you're being held. If you're an infant, it can see the person's face. So it's a very short distance, but it's meant to just focus on the face. So from a very young age, we're reading faces even before we can speak or articulate our feelings.
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