När du i samma situationer om och om igen gör samma sak formar du inuti din
hjärna det förutbestämda "valet" att också fortsättningsvis göra som du gör då din hjärna kopplar ihop de celler du med ditt tänkande och agerande får att samarbeta.
Neuroner, i en bild jag hittat på internet.
I The Shallows skriver Nicholas Carr om hur vi påverkas av daglig och stundlig uppkoppling mot Internet. Här är några meningar ur boken:
The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.
In addition to flooding our working memory with information, the juggling imposes what brain scientists call "switching costs" on our cognition. Every time we shift our attention, our brain has to reorient itself, further taxing our mental resources.
/---/ the constant shifting of our attention when we’re online may make our brains more nimble when it comes to multitasking, but improving our ability to multitask actually hampers our ability to think deeply and creatively.
The near
continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our
natural tendency to "vastly overvalue what happens to us right now" /---/
We crave the new even when we know that "the new is more often trivial
than essential."