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Lumosity, and Similar Brain-Enhancing Games

Somebody nudged me into trying Lumosity - I must have shown signs of senility, for those games are supposed to increase memory and, perhaps, IQ. Those two games I played stirred up the following questions: • Aren’t work and/or hobbies to be so interesting that they keep me on my toes, and learning? • How come a game that a young computer wiz developed is going to teach me more than my life has taught me? • Why would I want the kind of intelligence that can reroute a bunch of rail cars faster and faster, than the kind of slow and painful and difficult and limited intelligence that brought me to where I am now in my life? • Do I want to think and function like anybody else? Or do I want to be myself? • Can Lumosity do more for my brain than reading, gardening, knitting, cooking, playing the cello, writing letters and books, talking and arguing with my friends & family? • Will those games increase my memory better than feeding myself right, and going for a long walk in daylight? Read More 
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