The internet is making people less intelligent / A internet está tornando as pessoas menos inteligentes

Abstract

The purpose of this scientific article that uses a bibliographic method is to demonstrate that the internet is a world open to facilitate, because with it we stop using our brain as we should or could. Today's children see the greatest difficulty in tasks as mundane as reading or research. They are addicted to the online world that guarantees a high dose of dopamine in a single click. Achievements are easy and achievable in almost any application, be it a like on a social network or a game goal. This type of routine creates a vicious cycle, the need for dopamine generates more anxiety and this leads to tiredness due to cortisol and other released hormones that result in fatigue. We store with emotion and there are no more emotions for storage that make a difference. Emotions are conditioned to virtual realities. The cycle of achievements puts us in an anxiety that impairs attention and in the absence of focus there is no memorization and, without memorization, there is no acquisition of knowledge, we return to a vicious cycle, and to break this new paradigm, that this article is made necessary to discuss the topic.