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Conditioned To Believe<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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In a High-Tech Future We Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by\u00a0John Fowler<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many of us believe firmly in a Star Trek world to come, where technology and science would eventually have an answer to every problem we face today: from cancer to infinite growth on a finite planet. (Not that these are two different things at all.) This vision of the future certainly makes enduring life easier: it\u2019s not unlike Promiseland here on Earth. It is giving people the hope that their descendants \u2014 far-far into the future \u2014 will have a better life, without the toil and suffering. Heck, in the big scheme of things fans of high-tech can even feel proud that they are part of this success story right here and now! A story of a single species from a fairly uninteresting planet conquering the entire Universe, bringing freedom and democracy even to the farthest reaches of the galaxy\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Is it possible though, that all this is but a magician\u2019s trick, and we have been lured to believe in a future which might never come?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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R<\/span>emember Pavlov from biology class, who trained dogs by ringing a bell whenever he gave them food? After a few repetitions his dogs started to salivate in hopes of getting tasty bits just by hearing the bell ring. This is a perfectly normal reaction universally observable across all mammals, humans included. According to\u00a0Britannica<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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conditioning is a behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement, with reinforcement typically being a stimulus or reward for a desired response<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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