Shrinking brains are making humans dumber

Thanks Ruchifor referral. Sharad a nice one once again.

Thanks,Sharad,i do not agree with that humans are turning 'dumber'.In my opinion,human brain and technology are competing each other.The winner is human being with simple reasons that micro chips and nano technology are all due to innovative ideas emanating fro m brain.So size hardly matters as all living species are smart enough to conserve the  energy to combat the future eventualities and that is the secrete of their survival till date particularly so of humans..

Well said Ms.Ruchi and thanks for the referral.

Thanks for referring me Ruchi. I do believe the info  is essential n will avoid  making my brain dumb.

when we say smarter it indicates his or her intelligence in all level,we don't call any one smarter just because of his talent in particular filed, so definitely people are more intelligent and smarter in all aspects of life today,younger generation approach towards life is more practical then ever before,people are sharp.

ya but we can say the emotional thinking and approach is some where lacking, so i thinking that is the part of brain which might be shrinking because of less usage, so use it people and enjoy the life.

Thanks for referring this article Ruchi

I totally agree with Mr. Amit Mishra. 

If brain size determines intelligence then the Blue Whale must be the most intelligent creature in the world. May be it is, but we would never know for we don't have the intelligence to find out ;-)

There is no way to quantify intelligence. It is also not possible to compare with the past and future generations simply because they don't exist NOW.

Firstly i will say,very interesting topic.I think capability of human mind has just increased decade to decade.I don't think that size really matters.If intelligence or capability of mind is decreasing then really it's a big problem.

Brain may be getting smaller due to the trade off going on between work and leassure. The zones, like amygdala, insula, nucleus acumben, prefrontal cortex, anterior cortex culsus etc; still perform their old functions, lke regulating pain, disgust, distress, reasoning etc;. May be hypocambus where the memory resides is getting smaller where we need not have to keep lots of things there stored now, sine computer memories do the trick for us.

First of all, Shrinking brain size is no proof of decreasing intelligence. Neither there is an prrof that Gen X is more smarter than our previous generations.

I dont believe that there is an scientific way of comparing intelligence of human beings who existed at two different points of time.

For some people it is an proffession and for rest it is a an sphosticated time pass discussion. 

Believe me there is nothing you can do about your shrinking brain, not even wait and watch :-(

Dumber? I think the shrinking is goin with the gen-X trend I think! Smaller mobiles, smaller Pods, Nano Tech.... I think what is getting smaller everyday is the character, the personality, the humaneness, the social behavior. Families are getting smaller! Duration of stayin in a relationship is getting smaller! Husband's consideration and wife's patience is getting smaller! Lecturer's knowledge, student's enthusiasm; Boss's consideration, employee's passion is getting smaller! Place to live, good air to breathe, View of the morning Sun, twitterin of the Birds, belief in the power, natural resources.. these are the things that are getting lesser, rarer and smaller!
If we need to attribute all of these to shrinking brain sizes (??), I don't care- coz it's just one of the many things that is shrinking!

and thats why we need Google to be a 1/3rd of our brains .
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Welcome to instant information and so you don't need to remember anything anymore. Use our millions  of servers and compute any thing you want anywhere. 

Bionic humans or just machines ? :) 

just joking ,hope the strength and purity of the human heart remains the same .

People may be becoming smarter but the looking at life in practical way...is vanishing. People both you n old are becoming sophisticated in every way while approaching a solution. 

No, Younger generations are becoming smarter and more intelligent and in any way we are not using even 1 % of our brain cells.