“It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not so constituted as to create our judgements upon them.” (Marcus Aurelius)
> In fact, [writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own.
- attributed to Socrates by Plato. c.399-347 BCE. “Phaedrus.”
Socrates would have disagreed.
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