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In a leftfield experiment, researchers have found that when presented with neutral or boring stimuli (watching a plain movie, or a boring clip on loop for an hour, respectively), participants were more likely to engage in eating and even self-administering small electric shocks to escape boredom

In a leftfield experiment, researchers have found that when presented with neutral or boring stimuli (watching a plain movie, or a boring clip on loop for an hour, respectively), participants were more likely to engage in eating and even self-administering small electric shocks to escape boredom

https://doi.org/f6wbxq

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This most basic tendency of ours (call it curiosity) plays the same role within one lifetime that mutation plays between generations, namely preventing the system from getting stuck in a locally optimal state. Mechanical stress is crucial for musculoskeletal health, social interaction for cognitive ability, etc.

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