Being literate definitely means some faculties get less practice. Practically nobody today can recite epic poetry like the Odyssey, for example. That lack of rote memorization skill may have unexpected side-effects.
Thats a really good, succinct, statement that triggers thought - where ironically - being literate is required to reply to via the most advanced machine I have ever used...
But there are so many skills lost due to the privilege of technologically enabled sedentary life-styles...
can you imagine attemting to found a town/village/city in flat/cold/resource-constrained climates without electricity/supply-lines?
Those people before us had balls and conviction of steel - and even more-so for the women. You would not exist without a woman (mother) and women are stronger than men.
That’s possible, but unlikely considering that numerous studies of literate vs illiterate people have shown that literacy correlates with improved working memory not the inverse.
Studies of using mnemonic techniques to memorize long sequences (similar to what oral performers were doing) have also not shown much promise in increasing cognitive abilities.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-do-we-know-that-epic-poems-were-...