Dr. David Eagleman

Because when somebody that you love, let's say, dies or leaves town or whatever the thing is...

Your brain has come to expect the presence of that person in your world, has thought, okay, the world consists of this, and now that person is gone.

And heartbreak is a really painful physiological thing that you have to go through as your brain readjusts to the world without that person.

I don't know how I feel about this.

I wonder, when we were growing up, people said, oh, it's the television, it's the television's ruining everyone's attention span.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

And younger people might not know the television is called the boob tube where a boob was like an idiot.

And that was the idea.

That's where the term YouTube, you know, was a funny derivation of that.

But the right.

So now what kids are watching is lots of content.

We're all watching lots of content on Instagram, TikTok, much of which is great.

It's well produced.

It's matched to our interests.

And so I.

Are we addicted?

Yes.

Is it an addiction because it's offering better content than many other things in our life?

In some sense, yes.