Against dopamine addiction

Dopamine Addiction!

With the techno-panic, I see this constant usage of the terms 'dopamine addiction'. Yet we go back in and out of these systems and social media, and we know that we are taking part of a deal to have our data harvested, including on Blue Sky by Steve Bannon.

Both Cognitive Wonderland

"Because a scant few years ago, dopamine was being referred to, regularly, as an all-round good thing. We weren’t just experiencing happiness or pleasure anymore. No, now we were ‘boosting dopamine’. Which apparently means the same thing, but it includes chemistry, so it’s more official. Or something."

Including Nicolas Kircher on the chemical mind

"Furthermore, in 2025, Berridge was able to demonstrate conclusively that it is possible for an organism to want something that they severely dislike by directly manipulating the mesolimbic pathway with electrical stimulation: using this mechanism, they were able to cause rats to feel an overwhelming motivation to bite on an electrified rod, causing them pain and discomfort."

This even connect back with the Dopamine

Derek Thompson business newletter weighs in with the smartphone, though.

"But here’s what nobody talks about: The people who deactivated also knew less in general. They came back measurably more ignorant about what was happening in their own country. And in a second, larger study of more than 35,000 Facebook and Instagram users, the same thing happened."

Aaah, Yet Change Technically. Did one one of the ways how dopamine can be misunderstood?

So what is with the intellectualism and moralism with all of this? Another part of this that's part of the layer of the techno-skeptics.