Rage Against The Machine
Dopamine naturally helps us survive and evolve by stimulating our need to move and interact. But nature wasn't ready for the issues that arose with the appearance of personal computers and the 'infotanement'. In this case the dopamine model became the reason for our inactivity and our passive lifestyle. Because 'prize' and 'accomplishment' consists not only of food, sex and drugs. It is also anything that is new and exciting to us. Including information. Hereby dopamine motivates us to learn. .
So far so good. Dopamine is synthesized in the process of learning, that's how we get knowledge. Right? Nope. Not right.
Because if one can chose between useful information and entertaining information, guess what they chose? Of course, information can be both entertaining and useful. But more on that later.
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