The Brain Attic vs. TikTok

Podcast and cognitive-science discussions are currently using The Deductionist Podcast's "Sherlock Holmes vs The Internet" episode as a springboard to debate modern memory. Holmes famously believed the human brain was like a small "mental attic" that should only be filled with useful data, discarding things like the solar system. Users are jokingly debating whether scrolling through social media has permanently ruined their own "brain attics".