Interesting article on neuroscience and the concept of the self.

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How Neuroscience Is Disrupting Our Concept of Self

The end of ego.

www.psychologytoday.com

 

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It will take a long time for me to read through that. The topic itself doesn't disturb me but a lot of the phrasing and terminology does. There's no real reason why but it's sort of triggering for me. Very reminiscent of the way specialists spoke to my mother believing I was too young to understand big words.

But I believe in the concept of the story. What a lot of people don't understand is the amount of time and money marketing companies have spent on researching neuroscience and using that knowledge for all the wrong reasons. I spent 25 years working in the marketing industry, I have a little bit of an idea.

I believe that in a long term view our current version of social media is having long term detrimental effects on our entire world wide society. I am very strongly against censorship in any form, but something is terribly wrong in our collective online societies at the moment.

 

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I always thought that the end result of neuroscience and psychology would be a world where everyone considers themselves victims of their own psychology. "i am not a coward i was just born with an overactive amygdala"

 

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I believe that in a long term view our current version of social media is having long term detrimental effects on our entire world wide society. I am very strongly against censorship in any form, but something is terribly wrong in our collective online societies at the moment.

Social media and most of what is on the surface of the internet is a form of censorship.

 

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Social media and most of what is on the surface of the internet is a form of censorship.

I agree with that 100%. Training people to be dumb sheeps and do as the magic screen tells them. Get this job, buy this product, buy this house in this suburb. Exactly the same crap went on when I was growing up but back then they had to actually get you in person to get their message across.

These days it's all multimedia messaging and people are hounded by it 24/7.

 

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I agree with that 100%. Training people to be dumb sheeps and do as the magic screen tells them. Get this job, buy this product, buy this house in this suburb. Exactly the same crap went on when I was growing up but back then they had to actually get you in person to get their message across.

These days it's all multimedia messaging and people are hounded by it 24/7.

If someone is "hounded," it is because they chose to allow it. Some people are more vulnerable to FOMO and pings of dopamine than others, so choosing to keep social media in its place may be more difficult. I am not terribly social, either in real life or online. Maybe that grants partial immunity. I also have things I like/love to do IRL. That probably also grants partial immunity.

Digital socialization may be the next big step in human evolution. In that case, we have no choice but to adapt because the rest of the world will carry on regardless.

 

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I always thought that the end result of neuroscience and psychology would be a world where everyone considers themselves victims of their own psychology. "i am not a coward i was just born with an overactive amygdala"

That would be the natural result of scientific determinism.