"For 99 percent of hominid history, social communication consisted of
face-to-face interactions with someone you’ve hunted and foraged with
most of your life. But then the recognition and familiarity components
got pried apart by modern technology. By “modern technology,” I mean a
newfangled invention that came along a few millennia ago—you could
communicate with someone by putting scratches of ink on a piece of
paper, and then sending that paper a great distance where they’d decode
it. Wait, you know someone by their microexpressions, their pheromones,
their totality—not by implicitly assessing word frequency in their
letter or the scrawl of their signature. This was a first technological
blow to the usual primate sense of familiarity. And the challenges have
accelerated exponentially from there."
A long article, but very interesting if you are into brain science.
To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome
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