RE: Evolutionary fine tuning ...
July 26, 2017 at 6:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 6:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not so much what I've noticed, lol..I don't run cognitive assays. The most pronounced (in that test results have made it all the way down to practical application in employment assessments) is that boomers are routinely more capable of tasks that require sustained focus whereas millennials are basely incompetent at this - instead leaning on an equally pronounced ability to multitask. This tells us that through either inheritance or conditioning (likely both) the process our minds use to problem solve is changing as the problems we face change. Over time, those that rely on focus will be or have been less successful than those who multitask - this is natural selection at work.
The indicator, btw, that it's not solely conditioning is the inability of boomers - even with training- to perform in multitasking environments commensurate to their millennial peers. A literal inability to teach an old dog a new trick. Whereas the reverse is not true. Millennials can and do increase their ability to perform in focus related tasks through training. Meanwhile, age does not seem to be an indicator of competence or inability in other cognitive tasks. Initially, age and memory loss was pointed to as a possible source of the disparity, but with machine assistance zeroing out that deficit as a control (you don;t need to remember shit when it's all in your email chain)...that explanation has lost some of it's weight. People now point to changes both in our diets over the last 70 years and disparate problems we've increasingly been called upon to solve combined with sexual selection for fitness in this changing environment to account for what may be a developmental difference in brain structure.
Long story short, nothing "blunts" our instincts..or evolution - the parameters simply change.
The indicator, btw, that it's not solely conditioning is the inability of boomers - even with training- to perform in multitasking environments commensurate to their millennial peers. A literal inability to teach an old dog a new trick. Whereas the reverse is not true. Millennials can and do increase their ability to perform in focus related tasks through training. Meanwhile, age does not seem to be an indicator of competence or inability in other cognitive tasks. Initially, age and memory loss was pointed to as a possible source of the disparity, but with machine assistance zeroing out that deficit as a control (you don;t need to remember shit when it's all in your email chain)...that explanation has lost some of it's weight. People now point to changes both in our diets over the last 70 years and disparate problems we've increasingly been called upon to solve combined with sexual selection for fitness in this changing environment to account for what may be a developmental difference in brain structure.
Long story short, nothing "blunts" our instincts..or evolution - the parameters simply change.
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