Did language infect and dis-eased brain activity to effect continuous (while awake) consciousness?

Question

Did the evolution of space-time language, our everyday language, infect and dis-ease brain activity to effect continuous (while awake) consciousness as mind-of-the-out-there and mind-of-the-in-here?

Answer 1

I agree with Anon. Plus the fact that technology today  can  tend to make the brain lzzy  ie start with Calculators - they do the work for us. How many neurons work to use a calculator in comparison to the amount used for mental arithmetic?  Internet access is readily  available to most of us. I for one hardly ever read a book now, i browse teh web for the exact information instead or researching in the library.....Computer games can encourage couch potatoes, but on the other hand, there are many strategic games that can enhance cognitive begaviour.

I could write an essay in answer to your question but  there for the grace of God........Take for instance the nonogenarians - they seem more 'healthy' than people in their sixties on average, one causative factor is that the elderly had a harder life - walking for miles to work / school, clothes / linen  washing by hand / hard labour on the field / no pesticides. Nowadays we have all the mod cons, therefore encourage heart disease, cancers, asthma, All in effect causing atrophy, brain disease...........

Answer 2

No, I don't think you can say that language infected or diseased the brain in any way.  I would think that the currently high levels of technological advances, combined with the increasing amount of people who suffer from short attention spans, due to things such as the amount of time the average person spends watching television a day versus the amount of time were spent doing creative or active things 60 years ago has been more affective.