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# Avoidance of Change

Studies have found that we avoid information that we anticipate may change our behaviours, despite saying that we would want to know.\
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Experiments have found that even fundamental human neurons "prefer" regular stimulation over chaos, to the point of it acting as a reward. It seems that brains are machines to derive order from chaos so as to predict what will happen next. So it's not surprise that change would be scary - it's less predictable.\
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67r7fDRBlNc&lc=UgxcRaPilc4djoGWt-J4AaABAg>