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by Certified 1359 days ago
Your comment reminds me of paper by Bestsy Sparrow [1] where she hypothesizes that "Our brains rely on the Internet for memory in much the same way they rely on the memory of a friend, family member or co-worker. We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found." [2]

From the papers Abstract:

"No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can “Google” the old classmate, find articles online, or look up the actor who was on the tip of our tongue. The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it."

[1] Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips - https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1207745

[2] https://news.columbia.edu/news/study-finds-memory-works-diff...