It may be possible to hack the negative effects of loneliness biologically, because loneliness's negative effect may be meditated through brain chemicals: "It

It may be possible to hack the negative effects of loneliness biologically, because loneliness's negative effect may be meditated through brain chemicals: "It showed that mice experiencing the stress of spending two weeks in social isolation had elevated levels of a brain-signaling molecule called Tac2, which in turn increases levels of a neuropeptide called NkB. The abundance of this molecule, the researchers write, might be responsible for all of the stressed-out behaviors they noticed in the mice" https://www.inverse.com/article/44885-social-isolation-mental-health-neuroscience https://www.inverse.com/article/44885-social-isolation-menta... Now maybe we could create a medicine to target those. But on the surface , it sounds like a terrible idea - because psychiatric medicines have a lot of side effects in general. But also, even if found an ideal method to remove loneliness, loneliness does seem to serve a role - without loneliness people won't create connections between each other, and probably won't care about other people(as we currently seen with smartphones, social skills and empathy declined). And sounds like a terrible way to build a society, far different from that of the hermit monk(at least in buddhism), that, while alone, is training to increase his compassion towards all other living beings.