Hi-Phi Nation: The Digital Future of Grief
Slate Technology
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The Power of Attachment
Grief emerges from two things happening in the brain. The first is what happens to a brain when one loves or bonds with another. When you love, your brain forms an everlasting belief that your beloved will always be in the world somewhere. We have a memory, a knowledge, that our beloved is permanently gone. That belief isn't just rationally revised away. There's a lot of grief that is about trying to resolve these two incompatible streams of information. People get stuck out of a digital cycle where they would talk and socialise with their loved ones rather than watch videos on repeat.
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