Examples Of Neuroscience In Fahrenheit 451

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Neuroscience In Fahrenheit 451 The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, was written in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel which means it's based on an imagined time that is corrupt. The book is about how life might be in 2000s. It's about firemen starting fires ,firemen in the future burn any books that are found, instead of taking the fire out because they want to preserve the people. The book was written in the author's opinion on the future, which means it isn't true. In the future books are illegal, in this degree if they find any books on the people the books will be burned, and the people would be killed or taken to jail. Montag is a fireman, he meets his neighbor Clarisse. Clarisse gives Montag another perspective to …show more content…

Since technology has played the developing brain, the brain releases too much dopamine which is a compound present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including epinephrine.” In different words dopamine is a neurotransmitter that makes you feel cheerful or pleased. For example, the people in the future have four walls but four walls are four television screens. For instance, “save up and get the fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only thousand dollars, That one-third of my yearly pay”(20) this tells me that people in the future like TV that they would give up money for technology. Additionally In the future they enjoy and have pleasure racing each other with race cars going 100 mile per hour. The people in the future enjoy doing that because dopamine is released to the brain, the more you dopamine in your brain the more addicted, pleasure, and happiness you gain. This is why technology in the future affects your brain, because your brain releases too much

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