Every few years, there seems to be some brain theory that appears to have immense explanatory power to a lot of people and turns out to be largely off the mark, like "left brain/right brain", "mirror neurons", and now "dopamine reward". Will this ever stop? And what's next?
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Replying to @Plinz
Maybe, though maybe the label is not as important as the symptom it is describing. As I understand as a non-expert, human behaviour regarding mobile and app resembles forms of addiction. On hype cycles - these occur in CS too. SOA. WS-*. Cloud. AI. Blockchain.
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Replying to @ralphholz
Oh, I did not mean to say that Facebook does not disrupt our attention with addictive stimulation! It is just that the stories that we tell about dopamine in that context might be only vaguely related to the functional mechanisms that are actually involved.
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Replying to @Plinz
What I would really love to know - the addiction doesn't seem to be deeply linked to physiology (as with eg alcohol). Should make it breakable - what are the ways towards a more rational use of the timeline?
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I suspect that notifications etc. create a continuous regulation target, which in turn leads to the formation of behavioral clusters in the neocortex which get triggered by context plus regulation stimulus and then run the show.
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