The end of thinking

The recent emergence of the social media culture has resulted in an alarming increase in instinctual responses. An instinctual response is one that does not require much activity in the brain. In the case of humans, endowed with an exceptionally large (but unused) organ called the brain, instinct means fast decisions without much processing. Although the use of the brain has been in a decline for the past century, recent inventions – software that allows communications in pre-specified...