Deepdiving Internet

The value of social interactions, it turns out, is just one of the many things humans are not good at judging ahead of time.

A person experiencing social atrophy might not say “I am lonely” but rather, “I prefer to be alone” – or even in more dire cases: “people cannot be trusted.” They may no longer wish to share life with others

The result is social atrophy : the shrinking of people’s social brains as they increasingly withdraw from others

And Schopenhauer:

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. ... For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if

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