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Your Brain Wasn’t Built for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet
- diocane 13y agoA lesson in well created content
- hughdbrown 13y agoI found myself unable to resist clicking on this tantalizing link.
- sabbatic13 13y agoThis should be getting more upvotes. It's a very interesting topic that provides a framework for understanding our society better and ourselves.
- huxley 13y agoSome of it is interesting and worth considering but the "reptile brain" mumbo jumbo is based on the discredited Triurne Brain Hypothesis, which is not supported by modern neurological or anatomical science.
- ommunist 13y agoEhm. Our brain was not built. And it is more of a modem with firmware, than some programs running on massively parallel wetware. Just think about our responses to formation of melanin in response of changes in daylight.
- nobodysfool 13y agoQuasi-scientific at best. The original "research" is interesting, but I don't think it's applicable to humans or any other higher brained mammal. The brain can certainly handle eating candy (ever heard of natives eating honey?), sitting motionless for hours, 'super cuteness' and 'distractions'. While the first half does have scientific research behind it, the second half is lacking, and relies on conjecture. "Will power" is junk thinking.
- Ciotti 13y agoCandy and honey are not the same thing. Nowhere in the article do I claim that we "can't handle" any of those things.