Jemma Spake
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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Quite literally, physically.
In 2020, there was a really notable article published in Nature Scientific Reporting, I think, which basically correlated heavier use of GPS technology to a steeper decline in hippocampal dependent spatial memory.
Basically a reduction in the cognitive maps and the intricacies of the cognitive maps that we had stored in our brain.
There's an amazing Washington Post article from a few years earlier that talks about how society has slowly actually lost what we call wayfinding skills because of Google Maps and GPS.
That has been hardwired into us for generations.
That was an incredibly unique human skill.
We don't have that anymore.
It's not as good.
And the thing is, I don't want you to take that and think that I'm saying that using GPS is like hurting your brain.
But it is changing how your brain does its job.
The brain no longer needs to rely on its understanding of the environment.
It can simply follow orders from an external piece of technology.
Obviously, if it wants to save space, it's like, great, we've got all this room in the hippocampus now.
We'll use it for something else.
We see this happening with AI.
But instead of a single skill, it is hundreds.
It is our ability to draft, to summarize, to rephrase, to argue, to brainstorm, structure, answer, think, connect.
So instead of offloading a single skill, you know, we can probably do without a
like remembering a phone number or directions, it is offloading chains of cognition, like entire portions of cognition, like remembering and reasoning and synthesizing and articulating.
And these chains are all how our brain builds deep understanding and makes meaning of subject matter.
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