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> for some reason our brain loves filling the silence with junk

Natural selection might pick for this trait because if you can gather and evaluate and otherwise process a large volume of information you might be able to better find food, avoid getting eaten, and finding a mate to mate with.

executive function and intuition filter, but you need a bunch of data to feed on.

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Picture yourself in a location where getting eaten is problem.

Now intersect those locations with internet coverage.

Your statement didn't make much sense anymore

Now picture yourself being just a smart monkey, shaped by evolutionary traits that focused on reproduction and survival.

Now give this monkey tiktok and sensory overload.

There in lies the problem. The environment these days is evolving far faster than our species. Just because our biological programming is no longer fit for purpose, doesn't mean we've evolved beyond said programming.

Even if we could completely rewrite our programming with each new generation, think about how much the world changes in a single lifetime these days.