NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transactive Memory, Supernormal Stimulus, Hindsight Bias
22 Nov 2016
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You just know how to look things up. There is constant stimuli happening, and this is something our brains like and react to. Those feel good emotions we get from this process. It releases chemicals in our brain like a reward process. This release chemicals like dopamine, we feel good doing this activity, therefore we do it again and again. The kinds of activities that make us feel good are not conducive to deep thinking and learning, it"s about focusing our attention and controlling our brains, which could be a very difficult thing to do. In the way he present his information, the suggestions that technology controls us, rather than the other way round Valid criticism, and yet at the same time, we can begin tos ee why his ideas are not as determinist as they may appear. We have control over our choices, what we pay attention to
