http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_madscientist_profiles/

“The point is to allow better interaction with the environment,” which, according to Holland, “is what underpins cognition”. So, if better interaction with the environment underpins cognition and we are busy tearing that apart as fast as possible — particularly in commercial cultures — what’s the effect of disastrous disconnection with the environment? Cognitive catastrophe.