Source: http://ift.tt/Vgdf0W --- Saturday, November 04, 2017
The desire for amygdala-relief manifests: Bad day at the office? In high-pressured Singapore there is now a solution — a “rage room” that lets stressed-out people take a Baseball bat to items ranging from glass bottles to televisions. The “Fragment Room” consists of a bare, cell-like space with concrete walls, where customers pay to indulge in an unusual form of destructive stress relief. After being given overalls, helmets, gloves and shoes, people proceed to smash up items ranging from plates to printers. The set-up opened six months ago and inhabitants of the city-state have shown they have an appetite for destruction. Way back in the beginning of the 1900’s they wired electrodes to a young woman’s amygdala, and stimulated it with low dose electricity in one of those old, incredibly savage experiments they did in the olden days. Her immediate response was to beg them to stop, saying she just wanted to break everything around her. I still am not sure how stimulation of the amygdala would manifest in a desire to disorder the environment around you by destroying everything that has form and complexity, unless form and complexity are complex, and thus amygdala stimulating due to the details flagging salience. Then, destroying everything into disorder, from an amygdala-perspective, is like taking a complex painting and smearing white paint over it until it is an unstimulating white canvas again. I just find it amusing to picture, ...
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