Definition of mental disaster

With the rapid development of society, people's rationality and IQ are deteriorating.

Because when a person indulges in these fragmented gratifications indefinitely, he becomes less and less fond of thinking.

According to the principle of biological evolution, the lazier a person is in a certain aspect, the worse his ability and IQ will be.

Let's take another look. How is addiction designed?

There is a neurotransmitter called dopamine in the brain. When people are stimulated by the outside world, dopamine will explode in large quantities, such as a hug and a compliment, which will all cause dopamine to rise.

When the external stimulus is strong enough, the human body will enter a kind of infatuated and dreamy sensory experience, which feels very "cool".

From ordinary superficial experiences such as watching fun, jokes and food to middle-level experiences such as smoking and drinking, and then to pornography and gambling again and again, it can bring "cool" experiences, which are addictive to some extent.

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What is even more frightening is that people will be desensitized to pleasure, which means that the threshold of addiction will continue to rise.

If a person wants to get pleasure all the time, he must constantly strengthen the degree of stimulation. You need more sustained and intense stimulation to continue to get pleasure.

For example, some people smoke once every two days, once a day, and then two or three times a day.

There is such an experiment.

An electrode is buried in the brain of the mouse, which makes the mouse pedal to discharge. Every time they step on the pedal, the electrode will stimulate the dopamine-producing neurons to get excited.

As a result, the mouse trampled at a speed of hundreds of times per minute until it was exhausted and died. ......

So, why many people can brush short videos all day now, because once they stop, they will feel empty.

The most frightening thing is that this "cool" feeling can be designed through algorithms, which is what we mentioned at the beginning. Algorithms make us addicted.