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[Jorg hi]

Actually to your last statement, typing and writing have different effects from your brain.

Typing is much more cognitive, like a different way of processing, like a newer language sort of. Its not because writing requires more effort. But your last statement "all of which involving the same day-in-day-out muscle memory" is right. As our writing cognition is much more accurate than typing. We can convert the visual effects of our writing into memory. We can't convert keystrokes into memory as efficiently.

[ipivb]

Studies showing that humans are still evolving are sketchy at best. We have been in our current form for about 200,000 years... the difference between then and now is simply our technology and culture. And our population. Because our population is so massive, any single successful mutation simply cannot progress through the entire species anymore, because we are completely scattered around the planet. If we haven't changed in the last 200k years, we're especially likely to not change in the next 200k, if not because of the reasons mentioned above, then because our culture and technology may either bring an end to our existence, or transform us into robots. So in one way or another, we are not going to naturally grow larger brains or get taller/shorter, etc.

In fact, our brains are as advanced as they can possibly be. If you increase the mass any further, you must also increase blood flow, which means bigger blood vessels, which means the neurons must be farther apart and will therefor be slower. We have reached the pinnacle of evolution (which is why it's utterly amazing to even be born in this time).

Genetic mutations that cause low IQ, mental illness, susceptibility to disease, (and even the exact opposites), etc will always happen, but because the population is so high and spread out, there is simply no way for those mutations to "catch on" to the entire population. Evolution has come to a halt.

It is quite arguable that you learn better by writing. I can see how it is easier to get stuck on a single idea, because as you write a sentence, it keeps repeating in your head. However, I definitely learn better by simply reading. Only a few years have passed since high school, and I vaguely remember anything at all. But now days, I constantly teach myself a wide variety of subjects, and every once in a while, I stumble across a topic that I remember hearing a little about in school. However now that I'm older, and now that I'm studying it out of my own curiosity, I understand it much better, and it's incredibly easier to retain what I learn.

It is my opinion that instead of using most of your brainpower to practice good handwriting and use more muscles, which has nothing to do with how energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared... it is far more productive to concentrate solely on the topic which you are writing about, and give it 100% of your attention.

Also I think exactly the opposite about spellcheckers. When you are writing on paper and you make a mistake... who is there to correct you, right then and there? At most, if you're in grade school, you might get your paper back the next day with some of the mistakes corrected... and that's only in English class. By then, the very idea that handwriting causes thoughts to sink deeper in your head, has actually worked against you, and now you have to struggle against your long-term memory and figure out which spelling is correct. With a spellchecker, your mistakes are corrected right then and there, and you immediately think "oh, that's how you spell it".

To bring this back on topic, I am confident that future generations will realize this, and ultimately come to pose more logical questions such as "what exactly is the benefit of organic foods vs those with man-made, yet safe fertilizers/pesticides/additives?"

[Jorg hi]

Thats exactly what I said. Typing is a more cognitive action than writing. Your brain has an instant memory of the key locations so its like second nature almost. The accuracy of writing doesn't matter unless you cannot read what your writing. What I'm saying is that typing is much quickly processed than writing only due to the physical limitations. You can still make 5+ ideas while writing.

Your brain is will remember what you see visually(your writing), than what you are typing, simply because its allowing your brain a much better tempo of recognizing. Think about it, when you're typing, you're thinking at a different level, much greater than speaking, because there is less delay in typing than vocal communication.

Pure Thought -> Reading/Visual -> Typing -> Speaking -> Writing
As you go down the list, the physical limit increases. As the physical limit increases, your Long Term Memory has a better chance remembering whats happening because its happening at a slower pace.

Though don't assume I'm talking about writing something 100 times, or trying to memorize. I'm talking about, remembering things processed by your working memory(on the spot system).

Edit:
Dude wtf! You edited it before I could respond!

[ipivb]

Jorg hi, you always come up with really interesting things to say, but sometimes they just boggle my mind because I just have no idea what you are saying/getting at T_T

If typing involves less thought than writing (which it does for anyone who has typed constantly for years), then it is a less cognitive action. If you are a pecker then it is more cognitive than writing because you have to look down at the keyboard and look for the keys.

It is not the processing of the typing/writing itself that allows learning, it is the repeating thought. When you were younger, have you ever had trouble pronouncing a difficult word, and found it much easier after you repeated the word 15 times? Exact same process. We learn through repetition, and that's why writing is said to be better for learning that typing.

Every time I type anything, be it a post, a message, anything at all... I always re-read it (often, multiple times). Especially if it were an essay, or something important to me like these posts I'm making now. This act of repeating allows the ideas to sink deeper into our minds, which make them easier to remember.

How can you "still make 5+ ideas" while writing? If I were to write these posts instead of type them... well, they'd be much shorter and less informative because I'd forget 90% of my ideas while I am still writing the last one. Due to the physical limitations, you cannot remember every single thought that comes to you because they come quickly and it's hard to remember so many thoughts at once.

[Jorg hi]

Reading -> Typing -> Thinking -> Speaking > Writing

Yes but!!! That is if you are learning new material! Not if you're creating it!!!

Oh and by Congitive I meant "Instant" Beast-like, which is in one of Albert Einsteins quotes proclaiming that reading is the lazy way of thinking! g2g!!!!!!!

[Trow]