The evolution of emotions in the digital world: The foreseeable future
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Emotions are physiological, cognitive and behavioural reactions that allow us to adapt to our environment. The increased complexity of the social structure during our development as a species modified the emotional requirements necessary to favour the survival of the individual and the group. Responses to the demands of the environment became more flexible and controlled to deal with dangers that were not immediate, but were projected into the future and needed to be foreseen and addressed in the present. Once the current structure of our brain was formed, neural plasticity allowed for an appropriate adjustment of the subject's behaviours, cognitions and emotions to an ever-changing physical and social environment. However, the digital world poses a new evolutionary challenge, because it has modified the time and space parameters of social interactions. This could be a new requirement of the environment, necessary for our evolution as a species. Being optimistic, we can think that we will manage to adapt, but it will require an adequate level of awareness to project ourselves into the future and see what changes we need to make in the present. This awareness of the digital world should be based on an adequate knowledge of the process of building emotions.
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