"Stanislas Dehaene, in Reading and the Brain, reminds us of Plato's warning (in the guise of a dialogue between a god-king, Thamus, and a god, Theuth, inventor of letters) that writing and reading with the newly developed Greek alphabet will cause memories to wither, "having the show of wisdom without the reality.""
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