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Comment Re: It almost writes itself. (Score 1) 55

However, the language you wrote had to make it through your eyes and ears, visual/auditory cortex, language center, over to the motor cortex, and down to the fingertips and tactile corpuscles and back to the brain with every pencil stroke, and back to the eyes while you're watching what you're writing.

Then when you reread the text, multiple parts of your brain are likely lighting up. Then you go to the discussion section (are those are still a thing?), and as long as the notes don't look completely alien when you reread them, you can use that time to consolidate the concepts.

Our brain (co-)evolved in our physical environment, and abstracting away from the physical elements of interaction can cause us to lose things without realizing it. Just a suspicion.

Comment Pressing buttons vs expressing thoughts (Score 4, Interesting) 191

After touch-typing reflexively for a month or so, you start expressing thoughts directly rather than thinking, looking, typing, and repeating. It also becomes easier to control-backspace to delete and retype entire words, as you're now dealing in whole thoughts. There may also be a whole hand-eye-language-center pathway being developed, but I'm just speculating there.

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