Reading vs Scrolling

Scrolling looks like reading. Neurologically, it is not. The belief is the most romantic deception of the 21st century intellect.

Scrolling trains the eye to move, not to settle. Each swipe resets attention, fragments memory, and weakens continuity. The body remains engaged; the mind rarely does. Reading, by contrast, depends on accumulation - sentences leaning on previous sentences, ideas deepening through sequence.