Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Myth of Phones Making Kids Stupid or Violent" video.

  1. Virtual experience tends to distort a child's exploration of reality, a critical function of that stage of maturation. It is a major problem of proper development that has come on over the past hundred years. Beginning with the first photograph and voice recording, virtual reality tantalized. Movies and radio increased the saturation of the populace in reality simulation, seeding a bifurcation of awareness--"is it real, or simulated?". You can watch and listen to people who are not physically present with you--something unheard of in all of man's evolution. It's a good development in that it tempts people to, first, discipline, and, then, control, their imaginations. In the meantime, though, there's a lot of confusion and disconnection to navigate. It's a legitimate evolutionary challenge, and, therefore, also a human developmental problem. It's no "myth" that virtualization technologies introduce contradictory experience! The unprepared, immature mind obviously suffers most from the resultant confusion. Suffering experience to no effect is not an option! Everything remains, no experience is ever "lost". Experience is the material with which we construct ourselves, even from moment to moment. Everything STICKS! 😆...no pun intended...
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