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Bamei (36 posts) • 0

Isn’t it a characteristic of great writers that they came up with their own words to express themselves?

Miyamoto Musashi (30 posts) • -2

Everything is hackable. All emails and txt message can be read, all phonecalls recorded, all online activity recorded, all bank transactions recorded, all movement is viewable real time, all travel on public transport and air travel, photography and search of luggage and clothing possible using wifi interference. real-time microphone recording through smartphones, real-time camera recording through smartphones.

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ASatiricalBloke (103 posts) • 0

On the one hand, dolphin is outraged over the Cultural insensitivity inherent (to him) in the word Kamikaze, but is making fat jokes directed at one's mother.

So, which is the real dolphin, one has to wonder.

bilingualexpat (219 posts) • 0

@alienew

Allow me to address your inquiry on "why people do what they do" on social media.

Studies have shown that our preoccupations with egoic self-construction actually activate reward centers of the brain in ways greater than some of the most addictive drugs. On the opposite spectrum, long-term social isolation may lead to adverse emotions resembling a drug withdrawal.

The dichotomy of me & we propensities on social media can be explained by evolutionary biology. Our predispositions to differentiate with self identity while seeking interconnection with the group are hard-wired in our limbic system of the so-called reptilian brain.

From the evolutionary perspective, we differentiate ourselves with ego identity to optimize our chances of being noticed by potential mates. Procreation translates to gene survival. Yet we don’t differentiate to the extent of non-conformity, to avoid being cast out from the group. An outcast of the tribe meant certain death sentence in harsh, primeval environments.

Hence, the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and other social exclusion anxieties are some of the proclivities that drive us back to group connectivity, albeit virtual. Our subconscious limbic brain didn't evolve to distinguish virtual from reality. Kind of like how we fail to distinguish dreams from reality when sleeping. Or have genuine emotional responses to film or porn despite being consciously aware we're merely looking at a small monitor screen.

Ironically, the more interconnected we are to the collective group via technology, the more we cling on to the allegory of self. We instinctively do this to preserve the survival of our cognitive construct of differentiation. The more we discover our ubiquity of commonness online, the more the we strive to stand out from the pack.

Technologists and entrepreneurs of social media would naturally try to capitalize our innate vulnerabilities, like those do in the food, pharmaceutical, or beauty industries. It is up to our awareness of these predispositions to inspire to rewire. To cultivate a brain less dependent on apps that over-fire our intrinsic wiring.

alienew (422 posts) • -1

@bilingual: Won't argue with any of that, but we can still suspect the motives of those who make it available and wish to 'evolve' us, and we can still, after understanding the process, say NO. If I read you right, you would agree.
Might that be a good idea, at least under some criteria? I don't see any point in believing in fate. Evolution isn't finished yet.

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