Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains'

Thanks Kris. I find this very interesting and entirely applicable to the nascent field of Scripture Engagement Studies. By nature and history, SE Studies is interdisciplinary, and I think we will learn much over the coming years as we seek to understand what does happen as we interact with the Scriptures. Think of applying the following: "Because neither ‘memory banks’ nor ‘representations’ of stimuli exist in the brain, and because all that is required for us to function in the world is for the brain to change in an orderly way as a result of our experiences, there is no reason to believe that any two of us are changed the same way by the same experience. If you and I attend the same concert [or the same Scripture Engagement Event], the changes that occur in my brain when I listen to Beethoven’s 5th [or the Scripture Based Stimuli provided] will almost certainly be completely different from the changes that occur in your brain. Those changes, whatever they are, are built on the unique neural structure that already exists, each structure having developed over a lifetime of unique experiences." Of course, more is going on than just the physical "changes that occur in your brain," but certainly there is this kind of thing happening. And if we envision this as something that needs to be "rprogrammed" or "rerouted" or "resoldered" or whatever, we will may very well be missing a great deal behind the IT metaphor. I just learned yesterday about the ministry of Nick Hall, and his favorite idea that we all need to be "reset" as we seek to fix what ails us. These are powerful metaphors, but we do need to see past them, and this new thinking represented in the article is helpful. Jacob