Your Brain Wasn’t Built for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet

http://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

by Ciotti • 12 years ago

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diocane• 12 years ago

A lesson in well created content

hughdbrown• 12 years ago

I found myself unable to resist clicking on this tantalizing link.

sabbatic13• 12 years ago

This should be getting more upvotes. It's a very interesting topic that provides a framework for understanding our society better and ourselves.

huxley• 12 years ago

Some 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• 12 years ago

Ehm. 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• 12 years ago

Quasi-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• 12 years ago

Candy and honey are not the same thing.

Nowhere in the article do I claim that we "can't handle" any of those things.

Your Brain Wasn’t Built for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet

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