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Dopamine, as the motive force of human social behavior, combined with reward pathway, has pointed to the direction of social development since the birth of human beings. The development of technology, the exploration of the universe, and reproduction are all based on the behavioral guidance of dopamine and pleasure.

The instinct of life is to pursue pleasure and reward feedback. However, intelligence can drive life to take a shortcut and deviate from its original intention while developing life. For example, human beings will masturbate and bypass the complex process to form an internal cycle of pleasure.
All kinds of addictive behaviors in modern society, such as drugs, sex, especially modern media entertainment, have alienated human reward pathway. For the same behavior, dopamine threshold will continue to rise. If our dopamine threshold is raised all the time, we will always pursue something more exciting.

As Neil Boltzmann said, human beings will eventually be willing to become the vassal of entertainment and become a species of entertainment to death.
In the end, human civilization will no longer be able to meet the demand for pleasure. When all means can't satisfy the pleasure...

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