{"id":1899,"date":"2026-09-20T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:02:13","slug":"richard-cytowic-your-brain-wasnt-built-to-hold-this-much-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/richard-cytowic-your-brain-wasnt-built-to-hold-this-much-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Cytowic: Your brain wasn&#8217;t built to hold this much information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been reading through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television\">Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television<\/a> and have found a tremendous overlap between television, computers, social media, streaming, AI, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne came across this talk by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Cytowic\"><strong>Richard Cytowic<\/strong><\/a> and shared it with me.  He made similar arguments from a biological position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/t0qq9R__XiQ?si=987foOKzDViw2QF4&#038;norel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t0qq9R__XiQ&amp;t=252s\">Your brain wasn&#8217;t built to hold this much information | Richard Cytowic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading through Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and have found a tremendous overlap between television, computers, social media, streaming, AI,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}