<story><title>Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing</title><url>https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nehal3m</author><text>Hah, you can&amp;#x27;t make this stuff up.&lt;p&gt;6. 
Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing (newlearningonline.com)
33 points by indy 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments&lt;p&gt;7. 
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information (stackoverflow.blog)
329 points by TangerineDream 7 hours ago | hide | 189 comments</text></comment>
<story><title>Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing</title><url>https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svnt</author><text>Socrates seems here he is mostly expressing the frustration that he cannot entrain a book into his methods, and that their authors cannot keep pace with him in dialogue.&lt;p&gt;But that was never the point of writing. The point is to use some small fraction of sensory+cognitive function to give yourself access to a separable, durable, redundant, and location-independent form of information.&lt;p&gt;Not touched on here but in other recent books is the possible loss of sensory+cognitive function that comes with simply learning to read and write in the first place. It’s possible this is the origin of the myth of Odin sacrificing an eye to read the runes.</text></comment>