Social media use probably isn't the problem. Social media use is probably just the most obvious manifestation of lots of problems. And in fact, social media could probably be a solution. It's up to you.

We see short light waves as blue, medium as green, and long as red. When the brain senses short (blue) and long (red) but not medium (green), it 'makes up' a colour to fill in the blank.

Panpsychists reckon they've one-upped materialists and non-materialists in explaining how consciousness might have come to be by telling us that everything is conscious. Then they just leave us hanging.

Mushrooms change the balance between inside-out forces (the all-consuming neural networks that support the 'self') and outside-in forces (the environment and world around us). This model seems most useful in explaining the mushroom experience.

Ideologies are presented to us as distortions of reality---a synonym for 'false belief'. But they are merely a subjective understanding of the relationship between things. In this sense, all things are ideologies. We can only choose those better or worse.