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"We’re Regressing Into The Unknown" - Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

6/3/20261 hr 8 min

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  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. Konstantin Kisin· Host0:28

    What do we know about the mechanics of how screens and what we see on screens affects our brains?

  3. Jared Cooney Horvath· Guest0:39

    It's exactly what you would expect. None of it is great. A parent asked her, "When should I give my kid a cellphone?" And her response was, "When are you ready for them to watch porn? That will be the- [laughs] [laughs] ... that's gonna be the first thing they do when they pick up that machine."

  4. Konstantin Kisin· Host0:51

    That's a great answer. One of the things I found absolutely shocking, this generation of children are cognitively inferior to their parents' generation, and you associate that with screens.

  5. Jared Cooney Horvath· Guest1:03

    Yeah, and it, there's no, there's no easy way to say it. 50% of kids have a special plan that gives them extra bonus time to help them because they have a learning disorder, typically an attentional disorder.

  6. Konstantin Kisin· Host1:13

    50%.

  7. Jared Cooney Horvath· Guest1:13

    You can have what's called induced ADHD, where basically you act as though you have it, but you genuinely do not. Over half of our kids are on a computer one to four hours every day for learning. Imagine I had a drug, I invented a new drug, and you say, "What does that drug do?" And I go, "Mm,

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