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Imagine how your brain is atrophying.

  1. (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.

  "without exercise, the muscles will atrophy"


I don't think it's atrophying. We said the same thing about spell checkers, and my spelling seemingly hasn't suffered.

I'm not a native speaker. It's nice to have training wheels sometimes, even for a language I'm familiar with.


These tools will only become more pervasive, so why does it matter if that part of the brain "atrophies"? I'm sure people had the same worries about mental math during the rise of the calculator


Just imagine how flaccid the math part of most of our brains must be. Quick! What's 67 * 42?




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