Fascinating article that puts paid to the idea of ever having our brains downloaded.

[Danske]

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

 

One paragraph that stood out:

 

"As we navigate through the world, we are changed by a variety of experiences. Of special note are experiences of three types: (1) we observe what is happening around us (other people behaving, sounds of music, instructions directed at us, words on pages, images on screens); (2) we are exposed to the pairing of unimportant stimuli (such as sirens) with important stimuli (such as the appearance of police cars); (3) we are punished or rewarded for behaving in certain ways.

 

We become more effective in our lives if we change in ways that are consistent with these experiences – if we can now recite a poem or sing a song, if we are able to follow the instructions we are given, if we respond to the unimportant stimuli more like we do to the important stimuli, if we refrain from behaving in ways that were punished, if we behave more frequently in ways that were rewarded"

 

The only thing I would counter is, given the standard of most childhoods, the way to become more effective is to behave more frequently in the ways that were punished in our formative years, and less in the ways that were rewarded.