Dr. Michael Kilgard

I took Spanish as a kid, and they said you should watch telenovelas and learn Spanish, and you'll learn the culture, and you'll pick it all up.

You'll get the humor and the jokes.

I didn't learn that much from it because no one was talking to me.

I was watching passively.

And so we now know that when you're actively engaged, you're going to have better neuroplasticity,

better generalization.

You're going to better connect it than when you just sit back and watch.

Here, swiping is not exactly no interaction.

You have some, but it's pretty impoverished, pretty limited.

So I suspect a lot of it isn't that bad.

Just kind of comes in one ear, goes out the other.

But that also means those hours aren't spent doing something else.

Playing in the mud, getting your immune system developed, interacting with children, hitting things with a ball.

you may aren't taking as many risks.

Maybe that's a good thing.

Maybe you're not getting as many head injuries as we used to get.

Maybe that's a good thing.

So I think we've got to take the good with the bad.

But in general, the idea that neuroscience is accessible and that we learn that our experiences really matter, I think that's the exciting part.

Why is chat GPT so smart?