The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
The idea of a media consumption diet - it should be structured just like a nutritional diet - part people around you, what you watch, where you go, how much time you spend on each, how much time you spend consuming vs not - would you eat 8 hours a day? Associate a value to each - ie meats for protein caffeine for awakened sugar for this and carbs f
... See more“Put simply, the brain treats information as a reward in itself; it doesn't matter whether the info is accurate or useful, the brain will still crave it and feel satisfied after consuming it (at least until it starts craving more).”
Gurwinder - The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
The short of it is that when we think about information diets we might fixate on the quantity of information but ignore the quality and the processing of it. That’s like only looking at calories to determine if a diet is healthy. We need to have a higher-fidelity picture of the information we consume – our entire perception of reality relies upon i... See more