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Very tehnical, but very interesting.
Seems odd to me that we need to conduct studies on loneliness and see how bad is to not have a connection/social support. It's a basic need as drinking water...

We became creatures not just of the moment, but of the future and the past.

The dysregulation caused by loneliness consigns us to the extremes of either suffering passively (responding too little) or being “difficult” (responding too intensely). The distinctive human adaption is to be socially cooperative in a way that allows us to optimize the advantages of the group while retaining our own individuality.

We humans take great pride in our intelligence — our capacity for rational thought — as what sets us apart from the rest of nature, and yet we usually gauge an individual’s virtue or “humanity” not in terms of brain power but in terms of his or her emotional sensitivity.

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

The tandem influence of inheritance and individuality is why each of us experiences loneliness in a way that is unique, idiosyncratic, and grounded in the particulars of our life history and own immediate situation.