Your Smartphone Is a Parasite, According to Evolution

Head Lice, Fleas and Tapeworms are humanity friends along the history of evolution. However, the largest parasite of the modern era is invertebrating. The design is smooth, glass and addictive. His host? Everyone on earth with a wifi signal.

Far from being good tools, smartphones give our time, our attention and personal information, technology companies and their advertisers.

In a new article Australian Philosophy MagazineWe violate the risks of unique society, which enters the sharp focus when the smartphones are considered the lens of parasitism.

Exactly what is a parasite?

Evolution Biologists carry the parasite as a kind of close relationship with another kind – the host – the host – the host.

This head limherFor example, it is completely dependent on our own species for his survival. They only eat human blood, and if they are not lucky enough to fall into the scalp, if they are home, they are just too survived. The head lines in exchange for our blood do not give us nothing but a nasty scab of us; This is the cost.

Smartphones have radically changed our lives. To manage chronic health diseases from navigation cities like diabetes of sugarThese pocket-sized bits of technology facilitate our lives. So many of us are rarely without them.

However, despite their benefits, many of our phones and servants of our phones and servants, we will not be able to completely separate. Phone users They pay the price With the lack of sleep, offline relationships and mood disorders are weakening.

From the interaction to parasitism

Not all close relations are parasitic. Many organisms living in or living within us are useful.

Review the bacteria in the digestive system of animals. Only in the intestine of the house-owning species, he is nourished by nutrients. But they benefit Including the landlord, including immunity and better digestion. These conflicts are called interactions of associations.

The human-smartphone association began in reciprocity. Technology, touch people, walking through maps and became useful for people to find useful information.

The philosophers are not about this, not in reciprocity, rather than the phone The extension of the human mindLaptops, as maps and other means.

However, this benign Origins claim that relations have become parasite. Such a change is not uncommon in nature; one Mutualist may develop to be parasiteor vice versa.

Smartphones like parasites

When smartphones are almost irreplaceable, the most popular applications they proposed, they came to serve more faithfully than human users more devoted.

These apps designed Pull one’s behavior scroll usBy clicking on the ad and simmer in eternal anger.

Information in our sliding behavior is used to further increase this operation. Your phone uses only personal fitness goals or your children to keep your attention to your attention to the fact that you want to have a better quality time.

Thus, the hosts and phones and their phones can be useful to think about their parasites – for at least a while.

This happens to be interested in the realization and the benefits of considering the evolution of evolution of the evolution of the evolution of the evolution of the evolution of parasitism and consider how we can protect these high-tech parasites.

Where the police entered

In the great obstacle reif, Bluesreak Cleaner Wrasse The creation of “Cleaning Stations” that allows large fish of large fish to nut in the invertebrate parasites living in dying skin, empty scales and gills. This attitude is a classic interaction – the larger fish loses expensive parasites and waves more cleanly.

Sometimes the cleansing wave turns “cheat” and their hosts into parasitism from the dark lady. The fish was cleaned to punish criminals by expulses or visiting them. This is important for the reel fish to be evolutionary biologists with the balance of something in the balance sheet: Police.

Can we have a policeman in adequate we have exploited by smartphones and restore a net useful relationship?

The evolution shows that the key to two things: the ability to reveal and respond to the operation (usually by serving the first place).

A hard battle

In case of smartphone, we cannot easily detect exploitation. Technological companies that produce various features and algorithms to pick up your phone This behavior does not advertise.

However, even if you are aware of the maintenance nature of smartphone applications, the answer is simply more difficult than putting the phone.

Many of us have trusted smartphones for daily assignments. If the facts are remembered, the task is to digital devices – for some people, This can change their cognition and memory.

We are dependent on the owner of a camera to capture life events or just to celebrate the places where the car parked. This Both developments and events increase our memory.

Governments and companies moved online to the delivery of services online by moving online, they were more cemented to our phone dependence. We lost the fight after taking the phone to access our bank accounts or accessing government services.

Later, users can restore an unbalanced connection with their phones by turning a parasitic connection back to a person?

Our analysis shows that the individual choice cannot be accessed securely. We woke up individually with the advantage of mass data in the field of the host parasite.

The Australian government Good social media ban This is an example of a collective activity required to restrict what parasites can legally do. We will also need restrictions to win the battle Addictive application featuresand in the collection and sale of our personal information.

Rachael L. BrownDirector and philosophy associate of the Center for Philosophy of Sciences, National University of Australia, and DishonorableProfessor of evolution; Unsw sydney

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